COP 26: AFNOR solutions for the climate
The 26th Conference of the Parties to the UN International Convention on Climate Change takes place from October 31 to November 12, 2021 in Glasgow. The AFNOR Group can help you think “climate” within your organization.
Since the Paris agreements in 2015, climate has been on everyone’s agenda. Not just the political agenda, but also the agenda of economic players, from the largest to the smallest. The AFNOR group works alongside them to develop, disseminate and gain recognition for best practices in measuring, preventing and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
These best practices are set out in ISO 14001. This voluntary international standard covers all environmental issues beyond greenhouse gas emissions, insofar as it helps to build an environmental management system (EMS) based on the principle of continuous improvement. This year, 2021, marks the company’s 25th anniversary, an event that we’d like to celebrate here. And it continues to make inroads into the economic fabric: according to ISO’s latest estimate, 348,000 ISO 14001 certificates were active worldwide, compared with 312,000 a year earlier, and 6,458 in France (compared with 6,402 a year earlier), including those awarded by AFNOR Certification.
From COP 26 to the Virtual Climate Summit
In the run-up to the COP climate conference in Glasgow, which takes place from October 31 to November 12, 2021, we’d like to recommend a number of other reads. Firstly, an ISO book, translated into French, which links ISO 14001 and ISO 14090, a voluntary standard due in 2019, providing guidelines for building a policy of adaptation to climate change. Adaptation is defined as the process of coping with climate change and its effects (droughts, floods, storms, rising sea levels, etc.). This white paper can be downloaded free of charge. Secondly, we suggest you take a look at the white paper entitled “From energy management to climate management“, published by our German subsidiary Gutcert and available as a free download. ” The book has helped many German users to get to grips with the subject strategically, in five key steps,” says Gutcert.
Finally, there are a number of events to look forward to at the end of the COP, in this case at the Virtual Climate Summit organized online from November 22 to December 3, 2021:
- Circular economy, a range of tools contributing to a corporate or regional climate strategy, with Anne Benady, environment & circular economy manager for the AFNOR group.
- Carbon neutrality: what’s at stake for my company or region (french only), with Lina Ismail, standards project manager
