Sustainability Standards Network

The Sustainability Standards Network is an independent pool of experts volunteering their time and knowledge to ensure British Standards are future ready.

Members are drawn mostly from charities, NGOs, public bodies, and Social Enterprises working across conservation, farming, economic, food, fashion, energy, transport, development, and societal sectors, including health, culture, and education.

To find out more about the Sustainability Standards Network,click here

BSI is enormously grateful for the dedication and professionalism of all network members. We recognize and value the commitment of members and fully support their actions to build a better, safer, healthier, and more equitable world.

To find out more about the work of the Sustainability Standards Network, please contact tim.webb@bsigroup.com

Click here to see what the Sustainability Standards Network has achieved in its first year of operation.

I believe I have the best job in the world! My role is to find people driven to improve the world through sustainability.

Standards define and align best practice. When it comes to sustainability, that means speeding delivery of Net Zero and realizing the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. The aim is to ensure a better world for future generations.

Network members represent communities from almost every walk of life, enabling us to explore links between sectors. This approach ensures all voices are heard when setting standards.

Many Network members are are busy delivering their sustainability objectives, so the fact they are volunteering time and expertise testifies to their dedication and determination to reduce emissions, safeguard natural resources, and restore habitats and species.

The impacts of climate change are already being felt. Scientific consensus has established those impacts will intensify. The Network and its members, with BSI, are working hard to reduce or remove those impacts

The United Nations created seventeen goals to deliver a fairer, healthier, and greener world for all. These sustainable development goals (SDGs) have been adopted worldwide to ensure life on earth can continue in peace and harmony, where everyone is treated with dignity and respect, and has equal access to its resources.

These goals are our pathway to a global future where the earth’s resources are valued and protected. But first we need to vastly reduce and eliminate carbon and greenhouse gas emissions. BSI has played a pivotal role in securing global support for the London Declaration; a commitment ensuring global standards support climate action and advance international initiatives to achieve our shared global climate goals. Alongside this, BSI has driven a new initiative, our2050.world. An open collaboration between international organizations and standards bodies to drive transformational collective action achieving net-zero.

Members of the Sustainability Standards Network support delivery of both the declaration and our 2050 world.

The panel discussion was chaired by BSI's Global MD for Food and Retail, David Horlock. It was organised by the Sustainability Standards Network to stimulate action for delivering net zero and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Panellists included Finian Makepeace, co-founder of the documentary Kiss the Ground; Max Boucher from the FAIRR Initiative; and Yorkshire farmer Richard Bramley.

In October the Network had a presentation on the carbon footprint of fashion, and modern slavery within its supply chains.

Save money, save nature

We’ve put together a few standards, some FREE, to help small and medium sized enterprises, charities and organisations save money while reducing emissions, and delivering the UN’s sustainable development goals.

Download the document here

Dates of 2023 meetings:

• Tuesday 14 Feb 2023, 14:00–15:30
• Wednesday 12 April 2023, 10:00–11:30
• Tuesday 13 June 2023, 10:00–11:30
• Thursday 10 August 2023, 13:00–14:30
• Wednesday 11 Oct 2023, 10:00–11:30
• Wednesday 6 Dec 2023, 10:00 – 11:30