Begins today in Halifax the Plenary Meeting of ISO/TC 207
The Plenary Meeting of ISO/TC 207 begins today in Halifax, Canada. It is the ISO Technical Committee dedicated to the voluntary standard for environmental management. The works, divided into dozens of working groups (WGs), belonging to various thematic subcommittees (SCs), will continue until Friday 16th of June. SC7’s WG8, deputed to the review of ISO/TS […]
Trump brakes with the Paris Agreement. India and China set the arrow for overtaking
The breaking news on the exit of the US from the Paris Agreement has occupied the front pages of newspapers around the world in recent days. Even though the implications of Trump’s declaration are still not entirely clear. In order to formally exit the Agreement, it is necessary, in fact, long enough to make the […]
Risk of shipwreck for the Noah’s Ark of seeds
The world Ark of biodiversity seed did not took place on the Ararat mountain but in Spitsbergen, among the ice of the Svalbard Islands. Inside galleries that develop for hundreds meters inside the mountain at a constant temperature of -18°C, more than 1 million seeds are preserved with the aim of guaranteeing the survival of […]
Electricity production from coal collapses from 23 to 9% in the United Kingdom. Worldwide emission are still constant, while the share of nuclear is failing in the EU.
IEA (International Energy Agency) data has been published on world-wide electricity production in 2016. With a 0.9% increase in global production compared to 2015, there has been an increase of 9.5% in renewables from solar, wind and geothermal and of 2.2% of hydroelectric. It has been recorded, on the contrary, a reduction in production from […]
The spread of electric car has made IEA to revise their provisions on fossil fuels
The new policy of India and China to promote the spread of electric car push the IEA (International Energy Agency) to review its forecast on fossil fuel consumption for the automotive sector and the diffusion of electric propulsion vehicles. The Chinese road map of last April predicts to get by 2025 to have 1/5 of […]
Carbon footprint of products: important steps forward for ISO standards
The majority of national standard agencies, 35 to 7, have voted in favor of the CD of ISO 14067. “This is an important acknowledgement for the work done so far by the WG8”, says the convenor Daniele Pernigotti, “in an atmosphere always of great collaboration and participation by all the experts. It is well known […]
Filmop has achieved the EPD for its cleaning trolley!
The verification and validation process by RINA ended successfully for the Environmental Product Declarations of the cleaning trolley for professional use “TOP-DOWN – MA2606701U000”, with the support of Aequilibria. The EPD is also published in the International EPD System website.
Filmop has achieved the Ecolabel!
Filmop has recently achieved, with the support of Aequilibria, the prestigious European environmental excellence label for its “Rapido Super” product, an high-performance fringe made of white ultra-microfiber.
Life Cycle Assessment of the depuration service
The third party verification (critical review) by CSQA ended successfully on the Life Cycle Assessment of the depuration service by Acque del Chiampo S.p.A. (treatment plant of wastewater mostly from tanneries). The assignment is part of a LIFE project (Green Leather Industry for the Environment), aimed to quantify the environmental benfits of the introduction of […]
An important step forward for the future ISO 14067
The Working Group (ISO/TC 207/SC7/WG8) called to upgrade the technical specification ISO/TS 14067 in an international standard, has decided to take a major step forward, last Friday in Angers, France, at the end of an intense week of work. Having discussed and solved all of the more than 530 comments received, the WG8 asked to […]