ECOS | Environmental Coalition on Standards

News & events

  • 29 June 2026

    Watch it again: Green digitalisation and sustainable ICT products in Africa

    By Marxine Waite
    By Mathieu Rama
    By Alison Grace

    Watch our two webinars, which tackle green digitalisation in the African region, with a focus on Kenya. African and European stakeholders attended to discuss global policy and standards, with a shared goal of resilient, green, and digital economies.

  • 25 June 2026

    Meet our new member from Nigeria!

    By JP Antonucci Rezende

    Community Action Against Plastic Waste is a Nigerian organisation active across different regions of the Global South, working on plastic waste and policy solutions.

  • 10 June 2026

    No nature, no future: Why biodiversity standards matter

    By Samy Porteron
    By Lloyd Evans

    Nature is the living system that makes all economic activity possible. From clean water, filtered by forests, to birds controlling crop-eating insects, nature quietly sustains us every day. Businesses and governments therefore have a lot to gain from understanding how their decisions impact ecosystems. Life’s intrinsic right to exist is inalienable and rules to protect it need monitoring to check that they are effective. But how do we measure impacts on biodiversity? And how can we use that information to improve how we steward ecosystems?

  • 08 June 2026

    Petrochemicals need defossilisation as much as decarbonisation

    By Fernando Tonon
    By Jean-Luc Wietor
    By Katarzyna Krok

    Most of our daily lives have come to rely on petrochemical products: plastic packaging, car parts, building materials, synthetic clothing, electronics, paints, detergents, medical equipment… the list goes on. The industry brands itself as the “mother of all industries” for a reason: it sits behind countless products and value chains. And the climate footprint is massive.

  • 04 June 2026

    Vacancy: Programme Officer – Product Policies

    We are looking for a highly motivated Programme Officer to join our Circular Economy & Nature team as soon as possible. The successful candidate will work on standardisation, policy developments, and project management related to ecodesign and energy labelling, in the framework of the EU’s Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), with a focus on textiles, apparel, and footwear.

  • 21 May 2026

    InDiCo Global: Where digital transformation and standards meet

    By Mathieu Rama
    By Marxine Waite
    By Alison Grace

    In a new project under the InDiCo Global initiative, ECOS is tackling green digitalisation in the African region, with a focus on Kenya. Starting with two webinars, we will provide a platform for African and European stakeholders to exchange on global policy and standards, working towards the shared goal of resilient, green, and digital economies.

  • 11 May 2026

    Vacancy – Global Engagement Trainee

    We are looking for a highly motivated Global Engagement trainee to learn about environmental policy and standards whilst supporting our Global Engagement team in Nairobi and gain valuable experience working in a dynamic and influential environmental NGO. Apply before 25 May 2026.

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