ISO is on the right path to achieving its climate goals, says Sheila Leggett. Sheila Leggett, one of Canada’s climate policy experts, is leading the way on standards for sustainability. She reflects on how the sustainability conversation has shifted through her career, and the role ISO has to play in…
The past few years have seen mixed progress for the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. The time has come to leverage International Standards for actionable success. The year 2022 will be decisive as to whether the world can meet its sustainable development target by 2030. A recently published United Nations (UN)…
Together with the IEC, we’re changing the way in which experts come together to create standards. OSD programme manager Julie Suter tells us about the latest developments in standards collaboration. Amongst standards developers there’s a lot of talk about ISO’s new Online Standards Development platform, or OSD, but what is…
More businesses are harnessing the power of projects to drive social and economic benefits. Standards get practical about the future of work. In an ideal world, a project economy is where people are empowered to have the skills and capabilities needed to turn ideas into a reality. It’s a phenomenon…
To be strong, resilient and fit for the future, MSMEs are encouraged to uphold the highest standards. Standards are not only for the minority of businesses with thousands of employees. According to the World Bank, micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) make up over 90 % of all companies and account…
Smart farming expert Angela Schuster reveals some of the ways that digitalization is transforming agriculture and helping feed the planet. One of the goals of smart farming is to make better use of the land and improve yields as a first step in solving world hunger, but what other advantages…
From farm to fork, how safe is your food? On World Food Safety Day, ISO is taking a significant step on the path to ensuring that access to safer, nutritious food benefits all – people and planet. Safer food, better health. This is the theme of World Food Safety Day…
ISO to provide international platform for developing world’s first consensus-based net-zero guiding principles and the benchmark for the climate agenda. Climate change is the most pressing existential threat to our planet. The IPCC’s most recent report issued a clarion call to organizations and policymakers across the world, encouraging them to…
In a technology-driven future, healthcare organizations must undergo fundamental changes if they are to meet today’s global challenges. The global healthcare industry is on the cusp of a major transformation as an array of new technologies conspire to disrupt the way we give and receive care in the 21st century.…
Tomorrow’s metrology is the science of measurement for the digital economy. Digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data and machine learning are increasingly important to the manufacturing industry. Just imagine the implications on metrology – the science of measurement. “Metrology in the Digital Era” is the theme of this…
