ECOS | Environmental Coalition on Standards

News & events

  • 11 March 2024

    Join the ECOS team! – Fundraising & Grants Officer

    We are looking for a highly motivated Fundraising and Grants Officer to support ECOS strategic development, with a particular focus on grant management.

  • 07 March 2024

    Cooking appliances: EU could clear the air with new ecodesign rules

    By Fernando Tartaglia
    By Alison Grace

    The European Commission is reviewing its regulations for domestic cooking appliances, some of the most polluting products in our homes. Responsible for poor indoor air quality, public health risks, and carbon emissions, home cooking appliances that use gas must be eradicated – for our health and for our planet. The EU could make this happen using ecodesign. Here’s how.

  • 05 March 2024

    It is time for the EU to clean up heating

    By Alison Grace
    By marco.grippa

    Heating and cooling accounts for a staggering 80% of energy used in EU households – with 75% of that coming from fossil fuels. This pollutes as much as all the cars in the EU combined. There are solutions at our fingertips, but policymakers must step up and deliver on climate targets. Here’s how.

  • 04 March 2024

    Reading the small print: European Commission prepares the ground for more sustainable printers

    By João Antonucci Rezende
    By Mathieu Rama
    By Alison Grace

    Ambitious laws begin with ambitious goals. To lessen the negative environmental impacts of printers and cartridges, laws must be designed with sustainability as a priority. In its new preparatory study on ecodesign possibilities for printers and cartridges, the European Commission has created a solid starting point for what could become impactful ecodesign requirements – but improvements are needed.

  • 01 March 2024

    Call for tenders – Customer Relations Management

    ECOS seeks to subcontract a company to set up and ensure the maintenance of a CRM (customer relationship management) tool as outlined in the scope and output of this tender document.

  • 19 February 2024

    Buy better to build better: Green public procurement can unlock sustainable construction

    By Tudor Cherhat
    By Katarzyna Krok

    Construction products are one of the most significant contributors to environmental damage with an annual carbon footprint of 250 million tonnes in the EU. This is equivalent to the electricity use of nearly 500 million homes in a single year. Beyond emissions, construction products account for half of the EU's total material consumption and contribute to about one-third of the bloc's annual waste output.

  • 16 February 2024

    Join the ECOS team! – Programme Manager, Carbon accounting & management

    We are looking for a highly motivated Programme Manager to drive our work towards environmentally robust, effective, and credible carbon accounting and carbon management. Working in close partnership with our wide network of members and partners, you will lead our technical and advocacy work on international voluntary standards and policies. While based in Brussels, your work will have a global focus.

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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