We are pleased to announce the start of a year-long project in partnership with the British Standards Institution (BSI), funded by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills. The project, entitled Broadening environmental stakeholder involvement, aims to support BSI in meeting the requirements for multi-stakeholder involvement of EU regulation 1025/2012 and BS 0 by helping to ensure systematic environmental stakeholder representation in BSI committees. As an initial st

The SNS is currently represented on ten BSI committees concerned with standards on biodiversity, electric vehicles, energy management, energy performance of buildings, environmental management, nanotechnologies and waste electrical and electronic equipment. Three committees have been particularly active over the past months, delivering wide-ranging work programmes in response to European Commission mandates. NTI/01 – Nanotechnologies has been followed by SNS expert Dr Steve L

As of the 1st October 2014, the UK sustainability sector boasts another, brand-new organisation engaged in the fight for the representation of environmental and social sustainability interests. This newest member of the club was born out of an initiative launched in 2012 by Keep Britain Tidy as part of its Waste Watch programme, following the merger of the two organisations. It originated in a collaboration in 2010 between Waste Watch and ECOS, the Brussels-based European Env