ECOS | Environmental Coalition on Standards

News & events

  • 23 December 2021

    ECOS is hiring – Administration Officer

    We are looking for a highly motivated Administrative Officer to join our Operations team, and support the smooth running of the organisation. Reporting to the Operations Director, the Administrative Officer will support and manage multiple initiatives relating to HR, administration, office management, grants and finances.

  • 20 December 2021

    ECOS is hiring – Programme Manager – Circular electronics

    We are looking for a highly motivated Programme Manager to join our team and reinforce our engagement in the development of policy and standards to improve the sustainability of the ICT sector.

  • 16 December 2021

    ‘Green’ for all? Step into a day in a future powered by an ambitious Sustainable Products Initiative

    By Maria Luís Fernandes

    In 2022, The European Commission will launch its Sustainable Products Initiative. Through minimum requirements on circularity, digital product passports, and other new rules, this framework can potentially make sustainable products not an exception but the norm. We imagined how the SPI could change our lives through three everyday situations – what would a future of sustainable products look like?

  • 16 December 2021

    ECOS is hiring – Programme Managers, Energy-intensive industries

    We are looking for two highly motivated Programme Managers to join our team and reinforce our engagement in the development of policy and standards to accelerate the low carbon transition of energy-intensive industries. The roles will focus on reducing the energy demand from industrial processes, shifting to clean and renewable energy sources, on the one hand, and reducing the environmental impacts of basic materials (cement and steel) to decarbonise the built environment and promote circularity in the sector on the other.

  • 10 December 2021

    Meet our new member Runder Tisch Reparatur!

    We are excited to welcome Runder Tisch Reparatur to the ECOS Network! Based in Germany, the not-for-profit organisation advocates for the strengthening of repair as an essential element of resource conservation at the German and European level.

  • 06 December 2021

    ECOS position paper: Laws and standards should help mainstream reusable masks and personal protective equipment

    By Valeria Botta

    Face masks and Personal Protective Equipment play a critical role in the battle against COVID-19 – and have become part of our daily essentials. However, disposable masks and other types of PPE are feeding a growing mountain of waste.

  • 29 November 2021

    We are launching a call for tender!

    We are looking to subcontract an organisation to support the representation of consumer interests in standardisation work related to Ecodesign and Energy Labelling. Take a look at the tender specification for more information.

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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