We can't talk about sustainable development without sustainable products🌳 #WTISD

🤝That's why we work with Int’l Telecommunication Union & ETSI on the repairability & durability of smartphones📱which must last longer to help reduce e-waste & the #DigitalDivide

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✅ Fact vs myth ❌

🤏 There are already many small heat pumps on the market – and manufacturers continue to innovate.

🔗 Read the myth-buster: ecostandard.org/publications/m…

New position paper⤵️

To achieve its energy and climate goals, the EU must phase out fossil fuel boilers in buildings with definitions that are:

✅Clear
✅Unambiguous
✅Ambitious

📣 ECOS is looking for experts in the field of #data centres to support our work on scientifically backed, green solutions. We want to increase their #sustainability by addressing topics like energy consumption and circularity.

Learn more:

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It's great to see this progress on advancing clean cooking in Africa👏⤵️

✅Cleaner, healthier, efficient, & circular cooking technologies must now remain a priority

🤝We'll continue working on the policies, technical standards, & partnerships to support this global transition

Did you know that 40% of Europeans live in coastal areas? 🌍 #EuropeDay

🗳️ We need representatives who will champion #ocean protection! #EUElections2024

🌊 Learn more with #BlueUp2024 Surfrider Europe

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1/2 🏗️Join us and our partners in building digital futures that centre people, democracy, and the planet!

✊🏾 Sign our petition today and we'll take our collective vision to EU lawmakers ⤵️
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How can we decarbonise heating and cooling in EU buildings? Register to find out! 👇

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🏘️ More than 9 out of 10 European households have a washing machine, but their sustainability leaves much to be desired

⏱️Appliances must be more durable and last longer – and we know how to make that happen!

New blog with the reaLIFEstandards project⤵️
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How can ICT products be more circular? Find out at Int’l Telecommunication Union's event on digital solutions for a sustainable future💻

Mathieu Rama from ECOS will present standards & regulations that promote durability, repairability, reusability & recyclability

Register🔗 itu.int/go/15symposium

🌐 If everyone consumed like the EU, today we would have already used up all of the Earth's natural resources for the year.

✉️ We've joined over 300 organisations to ask EU leaders to prioritise addressing the triple planetary crisis. #VoteFutureEU

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✅ Fact vs myth ❌

🏘️ Multiple studies have shown that most of the buildings in the EU don’t need to be upgraded for heat pumps to be installed.

🔗 Read the myth-buster: ecostandard.org/publications/m…

The updated #PlasticsTreaty text contains a patchwork of conflicting options, with member states still divided on most matters.

Regrettably, sustainable #plastic production and consumption levels will not be addressed in intersessional work, which will finally begin at INC-5.

📑 Working with PR3 we have put forward recommendations for how to achieve effective reference to standards in the Global #Plastics Treaty.

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This afternoon 29/4/2024, Ms Marxine Waite from ECOS 🌳 paid a courtesy call to the African Organisation for Standardisation
SG Nsengimana and discussed various areas of collaboration, among other, #ECOMARK , #sustainability , #EUDR and #ESG related issues

🏭 The UN Global #PlasticsTreaty negotiations resume this week - an unprecedented opportunity to tackle the root causes of #plastic #pollution on a global scale.

⌛With time running short, we urge negotiators to urgently address these priority areas 👇

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