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1. Carbon Disclosure Project, CDP
The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) is an independent not-for-profit organization working to drive greenhouse gas emissions reduction and sustainable water use by business and cities
The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) works to transform the way the world does business to prevent dangerous climate change and protect our natural resources. We see a world where capital is efficiently allocated to create long-term prosperity rather than short-term gain at the expense of our environment.
Evidence and insight is vital to driving real change. CDP use the power of measurement and information disclosure to improve the management of environmental risk. By leveraging market forces including shareholders, customers and governments, CDP has incentivized thousands of companies and cities across the orld s largest economies to measure and disclose their greenhouse gas emissions, climate change risk and water strategies. CDP put this information at the heart of business, investment and policy decision making.
2. Design For Environment, DFE
Design for environment (DFE) is defined as systematic consideration of design performance with respect to environmental, health, and safety objectives over the full product and process life cycle (Ray and Guzzo, 1993). Application of DFE is becoming important for industries because major companies start to recognize the importance of environmental responsibility to their long-term success. They experience that DFE provides competitive advantage by reducing the costs of production and attracting new customers (Fiksel, 1996).
3. Eco-design Requirements for Energy-related Products, ErP In 2009, the European Commission updated the eco-design requirements for energy related products. The Energy-related Products Directive (ErP) is the European Commission Directive required for products sold and exported to the EU. The Energy-related Products Directive recasts the 2005 Energy-using Products Directive (EuP).
• Energy-using Products (EuPs), which use, generate, transfer or measure energy (e.g. electricity, gas, fossil fuel), including consumer goods such as boilers, water heaters, computers, televisions, and industrial products such as transformers, industrial fans and industrial furnaces.
• Other Energy related Products (ErPs) which do not necessarily use energy but have an impact on energy and can therefore contribute to saving energy, such as windows, insulation material or bathroom devices (e.g. shower heads, taps).
4. Energy Star
ENERGY STAR is a joint program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy helping us all save money and protect the environment through energy efficient products and practices.
5. Environment Management System, EMS
Environmental management system (EMS) refers to the management of an organization's environmental programs in a comprehensive, systematic, planned and documented manner. It includes the organizational structure, planning and resources for developing, implementing and maintaining policy for environmental protection. The term can also refer to software systems for organizational environmental management.
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6. Greenhouse Gas, GHG
Greenhouse gases include methane, chlorofluorocarbons, carbon dioxide, etc.. These gases act as a shield that traps heat in the earth s atmosphere.
The resulting greenhouse gas effect is thought to contribute to global warming.
7. Green Mark
Green Mark means this product has been verified through certain certification to show that this product is qualified of recyclable, low pollution, and resource saving, this certification makes huge contribution to the environmental protection.
8. Green Supply Chain Management
Green supply chain management can be defined as integrating environmental thinking into supply-chain management, including product design, material sourcing and selection, manufacturing processes, delivery of the final product as well as end-of-life management of the product after its useful life.
9. GHG Accounting
Greenhouse gas accounting describes the way to inventory and audit greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
10. Global Reporting Initiative, GRI
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is a non-profit organization that promotes economic, environmental and social sustainability. GRI provides all companies and organizations with a comprehensive sustainability reporting framework that is widely used around the world.
G‘I s Sustainability Reporting Framework enables all companies and organizations to measure and report their sustainability performance. By
reporting transparently and with accountability, organizations can increase the trust that stakeholders have in them, and in the global economy.
11. Halogen Free
The term "halogen free" is used to describe products that have been created without the intentional inclusion of halogens. The International Electrochemical Commission (IEC) defines halogen free as having less than 900 parts per million (ppm) of chlorine or bromine but also having less than 1,500 ppm of total halogens.
12. IECQ QC 080000
In October 2005, IEC Quality Assessment System for Electronic Components (IECQ) published IECQ HSPM QC080000 specification Hazardous Substance Process Management Requirements (HSPM) which aims to help the electronics industry effectively manage and control hazardous substances present in component parts and products and to demonstrate its ability to meet the compliance requirements of international, national, and local specifications and regulations such as RoHS and the WEEE Directives.
13. ISO 14001
ISO 14001:2004 is applicable to any organization that wishes to establish, implement, maintain and improve an environmental management system, to assure itself of conformity with its stated environmental policy, and to demonstrate conformity with ISO 14001:2004 by
14. ISO 14064-1
ISO 14064-1:2006 specifies principles and requirements at the organization level for quantification and reporting of greenhouse gas
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(GHG) emissions and removals. It includes requirements for the design, development, management, reporting and verification of an organization's GHG inventory.
15. iSupplier
iSupplier is a platform for suppliers to upload required environmental document such as environmental declaration, 3rd party chemical test report and material recognition report, which will be reviewed by Inventec.
16. Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series 18000, OHSAS18000
OHSAS 18001 is an Occupation Health and Safety Assessment Series for health and safety management systems. It is intended to help an organizations to control occupational health and safety risks. It was developed in response to widespread demand for a recognized standard against which to be certified and assessed.
17. Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals, REACH
REACH is the European Community Regulation on chemicals and their safe use (EC 1907/2006). It deals with the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemical substances. The law entered into force on 1 June 2007.
18. Restriction of Hazardous Substances, RoHS
RoHS was adopted in February 2003 by the European Union.[1] The RoHS directive took effect on 1 July 2006, and is required to be enforced and become law in each member state. This directive restricts the use of six hazardous materials in the manufacture of various types of electronic and
electrical equipment.
19. Stakeholder
Stakeholder is a party that can affect or be affected by the actions of the business as a whole. The stakeholder concept was first used in a 1963 internal memorandum at the Stanford Research Institute. It defined stakeholders as "those groups without whose support the organization would cease to exist."[1] The theory was later developed and championed by R. Edward Freeman in the 1980s. Since then it has gained wide acceptance in business practice and in theorizing relating to strategic management, corporate governance, business purpose and corporate social responsibility (CSR).
20. Waste of Electrical and Electronic Equipment, WEEE
The WEEE Directive is the European Community directive 2002/96/EC on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) which became European Law in February 2003. The WEEE Directive set collection, recycling and recovery targets for all types of electrical goods, with a minimum rate of 4 kilograms per head of population per annum recovered for recycling by 2009.