The world is facing a critical challenge. Increasing greenhouse gas emissions
are raising the earth's average temperature. As a result, dramatic climate
change is forecast and global scientific opinion predicts enormous
developmental, economic, social and environmental stresses on our planet.
Leading climate change experts have put forward a series of practical
solutions to tackle climate change. These solutions include the technical
standards published by the world's three leading international standardization
organizations: the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), the
International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International
Telecommunication Union (ITU).
In its groundbreaking report published in 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC) cited technical standards, like those published by the
IEC, ISO and ITU, as a means of mitigating climate change now, while offering
the potential to reduce its effects in the future as new technologies are
developed and mature.
The three global organizations are coordinating their work to ensure that
government, business and society are provided with the necessary tools to help
combat global climate change and to support the reduction in greenhouse
gas emissions by increasing energy efficiency, while facilitating sustainable
development.
The standards produced by the three organizations reach across all sectors
identified in the IPCC report where mitigation technologies, policies and
measures, constraints and opportunities exist, including energy supply,
transport, buildings, industry, agriculture, forestry, and waste.
The IEC, ISO and ITU offer a system of standardization whose output includes
standards for the following aspects of the fight against climate change:
Monitoring and measurement of
greenhouse gas emissions
Measuring the carbon footprint
of networks and products
Designing and building energy
efficient homes and workplaces
Benchmarking for good
practices including environmental and energy efficiency labeling
Promoting good practice for
environmental management and design, and for energy management
Disseminating innovative
technologies that promise to help reduce the effects of climate change
Fostering the introduction of
new energy-efficient technologies and services
International standards offer policy makers, industry and users the common
tools they need to work together on tackling climate change. The three partner
organizations also offer a comprehensive system in which nations and the
private sector can participate to establish the priorities for tackling climate
change in the years ahead. As such, they offer practical solutions with the
potential to be used as part of any international agreement following on from
the Kyoto Protocol.
Standards from the IEC, ISO and ITU offer the world's
governments and industry the best possible benchmarks to be referenced in any
policy making decisions or future climate treaties. The three organizations are
working together with other international organizations to ensure that
participants at the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference on 7-18
December 2009 in Copenhagen,
Denmark, will
be fully aware of the solutions offered by existing and future International
Standards.
Badan Standardisasi Nasional
Gedung Manggala Wanabakti, Blok IV lantai 3-4. Jl. Gatot Subroto. Senayan - Jakarta 10270 - Indonesia.
Telp : 021-5747043 Fax : 021-5747045. email : bsn@bsn.go.id, website: www.bsn.go.id
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