Climate chaos

Climate chaos

Record heat, melting ice and rising seas show how climate change is affecting us.

Around the globe, seasons are shifting and temperatures are climbing, threatening to deprive us of the very things – air, water, food and a safe place to live – we depend on for survival. But there’s new hope ahead.

We ask the top experts in the field how ISO’s portfolio can address climate change, reduce GHG emissions, and manage mitigation and adaptation.

January/February 2016

Climate chaos

Seasons are shifting and temperatures are climbing, threatening to deprive us of the very things – air, water, food and a safe place to live – we depend on for survival.

Spotlight

ISO 26000 in the post-2015 development agenda

At the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit on 25 September 2015, world leaders adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which includes a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, fight inequality and injustice, and tackle climate change by 2030.

It is vitally important to increase the global use of ISO 26000.

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Leading global collaboration in climate change standards

9 December 2015

ISO is collaborating globally to update and extend its climate change standards and help the world minimize and adapt to the effects of climate change.

The cookstove challenge

3 December 2015

Cooking shouldn't kill, but for far too many people in developing countries, this is exactly what happens. ISO has joined the global community in working to create and sustain a thriving market for clean and efficient household cooking solutions. Together, we can make change happen.

Mutua Madrileña's energy management strategy

6 January 2016

When one of Spain's largest insurance groups decided to implement ISO 50001 on energy management systems, it knew that it would be no small feat. But with 23 buildings comprising a surface area of 208 000 m², Mutua Madrileña believed the challenge was worth taking. And today, the group's results are paying off.

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