Management system standards and climate changes

Abstract

During last several years sustainable development became a very actual topic in the world. For the first, the concept has been applied in the area of enviromental protection but gradually was spread to other areas of social life. Awareness of need to resolve problems significant for the Planet survival caused that officials on the World Summit in New York in 2015. agreed upon the 17 global sustainable development goals. One of the goals, goal No 13 is related to Climate actions. In this paper, topic related to climate changes is considered from the point of view of management system standards from family ISO 14000. In addition to the basic standard for environmental protection ISO 14001 it covers standards ISO 14064-1 related to Greenhouse gases emission, ISO 14067 related to carbon footprint of products, ISO 14080 which contains methodology on climate changes as well as ISO Guide 84 that represents guidelines for addressing climate changes in ISO standards. Finally, a short review of actual status of fulfillment of goal No. 13 in Serbia is given.