ECOS will hold a webinar and a training session focusing on Standardisation and the Environment in October 2019. We will soon come back with more information and the possibility to register. Stay tuned!
ECOS is looking for a highly motivated Finance and Grants Officer to join our team. Reporting directly to the Operations Director, this is a key role within the operations department with the exciting objective of contributing to the development and implementation of policies and systems for finances, administration, HR and fundraising.
With up to 167 000 tonnes estimated to leak into the environment in Europe every year, plastic pellets are the second largest source of primary microplastic pollution (after tyre abrasion and before microfibers from textile).
On 20 June 2019, ECOS Policy Director Christoforos Spiliotopoulos and Programme Manager Nerea Ruiz Fuente represented ECOS as speakers at the EU Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW19).
On 18 June, the European Commission released a number of documents which will shape the future of sustainable finance in the European Union. Two of them are of particular importance for our work, as they will heavily feed into the development of ISO standards.
This preliminary standardisation request concerns the development of harmonised standards for air conditioners and focuses on methods for measuring and calculating the seasonal space heating and cooling energy efficiencies and the sound power.
2019 has so far seen two national workshops, organised in Cyprus (April) and North Macedonia (June), within the ENgage project, which aims at enhancing the participation of national standardisation bodies and environmental NGOs in standardisation.
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