Non-profit activities
As an employee-owned company, we have no need to pay profits to any investors. One way we re-invest our profit is to offer our services pro bono to NGO’s and International organisations such as UNEP, ISO and SETAC.
In the UNEP / SETAC Life Cycle Initiative, we contribute to the:
- Task Force on Life Cycle Inventory (overall management and specific contributions),
- Task Force on Life Cycle Impact Assessment (Definition study and Task Force on Resources and Land use),
- Task Force on Life Cycle Management
- Cross-cutting Task Force on Integration of Social Aspects in LCA.
We also contribute to the UNEP CSD working group on Environmental Management Accounting (EMA).
In ISO, we contribute to the:
- Technical Management Board Task Force on Integrated Use of Management System Standards.
- TC 207 Environmental Management Systems and Tools. Task forces on business plan implementation and future strategies.
- ISO 14001 and 14004 standard on Environmental Management. Working group membership for the revision.
- ISO 14025 standard on Environmental Declarations. Working group membership.
- ISO 14040-series of standards on Life Cycle Assessment – Working groups memberships as well as secretariat for the revision (14040 & 14044).
- ISO 14063 standard on Environmental Communication. Working group membership.
- ISO 26000 guidance document on Social Responsibility. Technical Management Board Working Group membership.
In SETAC-Europe, we have contributed to the
- Working Group on Simplified Life Cycle Assessment (1994-1997)
- Working Group on Life Cycle Impact Assessment (1998-2000)
- Working Group on Data availability and Quality (1998-2001)
- Working Group on Life Cycle Management (1998-2001)
- Working Group on Scenario Development (1998-2001)
- LCA Steering Committee (1998-2005)
- Working Group on Input-Output Economics (2003-2006)
- Working Group on Life Cycle Costing (2003-2006)