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Environmental Management Standards ISO (International Organization for Standardization) has just published a new version of its free brochure on the ISO 14000 family of environmental management standards, specially updated in time for distribution at the forthcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development (26 August-4 September 2002, Johannesburg, South Africa). Written by experts participating in ISO technical committee ISO/TC 207, the brochure, which updates a 1998 version, is entitled Environmental Management - The ISO 14000
Family of International Standards 2002. It provides an overview of the 25 published standards, technical reports and guides developed by the committee since it was established in 1993, as well as documents in progress, and other ISO 14000-related publications by ISO."The whole ISO 14000 family provides management tools for organizations to control their environmental aspects and to improve their
environmental performance," the authors state in the brochure. "Together, these tools can provide significant tangible economic benefits, including: - reduced raw material/resource use;
- reduced energy consumption;
- improved process efficiency;
- reduced waste generation and disposal
costs, and
- utilization of recoverable resources.
"Of course, associated with each of these economic benefits are distinct environmental benefits too. This is the contribution that the ISO 14000 family makes to the environmental and economic components of sustainable development and the triple bottom line." The authors explain that the family consists of
standards relating to environmental management systems and others which are tools to help the organization realize its environmental policy, objectives and targets, and classify them by application: - at the organizational level (implementing EMS, conducting environmental auditing and related investigations, and evaluating environmental performance);
- to products and services (using
environmental declarations and claims, conducting life cycle assessment), addressing environmental aspects in product standards, and understanding terms and definitions).
Environmental Management - The ISO 14000 Family of International Standards 2002 (ISBN 92-67-10367-9), 14 p., A4 format, is available from ISO's national member institutes (see list on ISO's Web site: www.iso.org) and ISO Central Secretariat. Small quantities are free; postage and handling will be charged for larger orders. | 
