ECOS | Environmental Coalition on Standards

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  • Sustainable buildings & construction products

    Building a European Affordable Housing Plan with what we have

    Europe is facing a double challenge: reaching energy, climate, and circularity goals while also ensuring affordable, accessible, and healthy housing. Too often, these two challenges are put against one another. However, for a built environment that works for people and nature, the upcoming European Affordable Housing Plan (EAHP) should take advantage of how environmental and social aspects can work together. With fellow experts from Natuur & Milieu and Lund University, we look at how tackling inefficient use of empty or underused buildings can ensure affordable housing and reduce environmental impacts.

  • Regional: EU standardisation and policy

    Standards need to work for everyone – here’s how we do it

    The outcome of any negotiation depends on who sits at the table. Environmental stakeholders must be included for standardisation to be effective. Smooth collaboration between companies, workers, consumers, civil society, and environmental groups is the key to delivering standards and EU policies that work for everyone and strengthen the single market. Here’s how.

  • Sustainable finance and corporate reporting

    Harmonisation of ISO and GHG-P standards must raise the quality bar

    The International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) and the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG-P) decision to create common emissions accounting standards has the potential to streamline and simplify procedures. However, this must be done in a way that lifts climate ambition, write Carbon Market Watch’s Benja Faecks and ECOS’s Thea Lyngseth.

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How data centre expansion risks derailing climate goals

Report by ECOS with Open Future. How data centre expansion risks derailing climate goals and how to fix it. An analysis of the environmental impacts of data centres, the solutions to this, and possible EU policy responses.

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ECOS is an international network of environmental NGOs. Our members support our mission to defend environmental interests in the development of standards and product regulations. The ECOS membership package offers a range of benefits and unique access to information and events. Meet our members, learn about the ECOS membership packages and find out about how to become a member.

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ECOS is co-funded by the European Commission and EFTA Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or EISMEA. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

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