![]() With our strong commitment towards our international partners (ISO and IEC), together with our national members we aim to ensure that Europe leads in the development and application of standardization solutions that respond to global challenges. Therefore, our engagement is – primarily – global. On the other hand, we understand that, as Europeans, we are part of a bigger global ecosystem. Thanks to the well-functioning public-private partnership recently renewed through the new European Standardization Strategy, CEN and CENELEC support the EU’s initiatives – including the ones linked to the SDGs: the EU Green Deal, the Circular Economy Action Plan, and the EU’s Digital Strategy, to name only a few. First, in our role as ESOs, our purpose is to strengthen the Single Market. This year’s edition, under the motto “Shared visions for a better world”, showcases the many ways in which international standards can contribute to sustainability.Īs the recovery from the Covid pandemic shows, voluntary, consensus-based standards facilitate the translation of ambitions into concrete actions: they offer shared and clear rules of behaviour which foster the dissemination of best practices and the circulation of innovations.Īs CEN and CENELEC, our commitment to making standardization a lever for sustainable development is twofold. In this spirit, this 14 October, like every year, CEN and CENELEC join the international standardization community in celebrating World Standards Day. We believe that, in this effort, standards can play a key role. Each goal of the SDGs – and their corresponding targets – supports a specific dimension of the effort needed and point to a global commitment that is now more relevant than ever.ĬEN and CENELEC, as two of the official European Standardization Organizations (ESOs), are aware of the importance to leverage all available tools to achieve the SDGs. At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): they represent a call for action to address social imbalances, develop a sustainable economy, and fight climate change. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by the United Nations in 2015, offers a way forward. The magnitude of these challenges calls on us – institutions, businesses and individuals – to identify solutions to build back better together. Energy, food insecurity, economic uncertainty: our world is tangled in many interlocking crises. ![]()
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