ISO has approved the proposal for the SDG MSS and decided to establish a Project Committee; PC 343 Management System for UN Sustainable Development Goals.
The first meeting of PC 343 will be held online June 20-21st 2023.
If you wish to become a member of the PC and participate in the work and meetings, please contact your National Standardization Body and ask them to register you in PC 343.
If you wish to apply for liaison please contact the secretariat of PC 343 (information below).
In a world where confidence and trust are essential for organizations there is a need for ISO to develop a systematic approach to work and document the organizations efforts with the UN SDGs.
Therefore, ISO proposes to make a new management standard (MSS) for the UN SDGs. The MSS will help organizations improve their performance by specifying required steps to achieve SDG-goals, -policies, and -objectives. The purpose is to provide one framework for all types of organizations to work effectively with a relevant selection of the UN’s SDGs.
This enables an organization to improve its sustainable development performance, shape the organization for the future and create a solid, value- and business-based foundation for sustained success.
ISO suggests a new MSS for SDGs as the sustainability agenda will continue to be a relevant strategic business driver in the future.
To build confidence the market needs verifiable standards. The national schemes developed by Certification Bodies and private entities emphasizes the need for having a broadly accepted international standard suitable for accredited certification. The standard aims at creating a connection between organizational strategies and the SDGs resulting in business advantages as well as making the SDGs an integrated part of the daily work.
Even though certification may not be needed by many of the users yet, the standard provides a framework and tool for systematic effort with the SDGs. The requirements will be generic and flexible so that each individual organization defines its scope, objectives, and possible improvements.
ISO is a non-profit organization based on users all over the world participating in developing standards.
ISO aims to unite all relevant existing work for SDGs in an international standard by inviting all stakeholders to join the developing process to achieve the best possible standard with a high level of consensus. It takes around 3 years to develop a standard using ISO’s four key principles
You can participate either as a member through your national standardization body or as a liaison representing a non-profit organization
For further information please contact your national standardization body or Danish Standard.
You can find more about the background for the proposal in the justification study and find the scope, proposed content and a list of examples of relevant work the new SDG ISO standard will be developed from in the ISO Form4 under “Study and proposal”.
If you wish to vote on the proposal/Form4 please contact your national standardization body and inform them of your position before deadline December 8th.
Kasper Mühlbach
Chief Consultant
kahm@ds.dk
+45 31318261
Mette Sandager
Standardisation Consultant
mjs@ds.dk
+45 21200386