{"id":45230,"date":"2023-02-28T20:44:17","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T20:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightsdirect.com\/?post_type=blog_post&p=45230"},"modified":"2023-02-28T20:44:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T20:44:18","slug":"nachhaltigkeit-teil-1","status":"publish","type":"blog_post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightsdirect.com\/de\/blog\/nachhaltigkeit-teil-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Der Workflow der Zukunft: Standards & Nachhaltigkeit, Teil 1\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This webcast series was created by CCC to help facilitate important conversations on critical topics related to standards. And based on the number of people joining us, it is clear there is much to say, whether you are in the standards development organization (SDO) community, in corporate research and development and use standards in your daily work, or in government and helping to guide public policy. Judging by the participation in the Sustainability webcast<\/a> in particular, and in this series overall, our community is deeply invested in the topic and looking to achieve very high goals and meaningful outcomes. The sustainability agenda is now worldwide and mainstream, albeit wrapped up in politics and differing points of view.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our first speaker, Holly Elwood, is a Senior Advisor for the EPA\u2019s Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Program<\/a>, which helps federal agencies factor the environment into purchasing decisions. The US federal government is using its massive purchasing power to bring about change throughout the supply chain in a number of ways: <\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Elwood coordinates EPA and interagency technical input into product sustainability standard development efforts and helps shape and maintain EPA\u2019s Recommendations of Standards and Ecolabels for Federal Procurement. She and her team have found that the federal procurement community and all purchasers need assistance in determining which products and services are more sustainable than others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c[With over] 460 sustainability standards and ecolabels\u2026in the marketplace today\u2026sifting through these to determine which ones apply\u2026and which ones are clearly effective and credible\u2026can be very daunting to purchasers\u2026our recommendations<\/a> are intended to address that issue and give purchasers one place to go to see a set of recommended standards and ecolabels that have already been vetted by EPA and our sister agencies.\u201d The EPA has established a framework<\/a> for making assessments of sustainability and publishes Recommendations of Specifications, Standards, and Ecolabels based on this framework. On the webcast, Ms. Elwood noted that the sheer volume of standards and ecolabels \u2013 well over 460 at this writing \u2013 makes vendor selection a daunting prospect. Her organization is creating recommendations that give preference to multi-attribute, life cycle-based standards and ecolabels that address key impact areas. They are looking carefully for opportunities where product conformance is determined by a competent third-party certification body.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Elwood was careful to note that this is a process, and that input is welcome. The audience \u2013 and readers of this blog \u2013 are welcome to communicate with her team. She invited those who are aware of a sustainability standard or an ecolabel but aren\u2019t sure about its credibility to contact them.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Federal government is clearly driving extensive and far-reaching change and using standards, where they exist, to support sustainability. Other governments and larger organizations around the world are either implementing or have implemented similar mandates. The importance and relevance of standards as a force for change in sustainability is only going to grow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Future posts in this series will summarize the remarks of speakers Maike Luiken, Planet Positive 2030 Initiative, and Holly Neber, CEO of AEI Consultants.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n This webcast was supported by the U.S. Department of Commerce\u2019s International Trade Administration\u2019s\u202f<\/em><\/strong>Market Development Cooperator Program<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Anfang Dezember 2022 veranstaltete das Copyright Clearance Center einen Webcast mit dem Titel \u201eWorkflow of the Future: Standards & …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":45231,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"internal_tag":[],"topic":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-45230","blog_post","type-blog_post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
\u2013 Holly Elwood <\/p>\n\n\n\n