Responsible Consumption And Production

Responsible Consumption And Production

Case studies, Research and Supporting Materials associated with the Responsible Consumption And Production Sustainable Development Goal.

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Case Studies (61 items)

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Labelling scheme allows companies to demonstrate water efficiency of products

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

On the way to Planetproof helps businesses demonstrate sustainability

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Energy management system certification helps businesses improve energy performance in China

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Certification brings 90,000 Euros of value to Croatian shipyard

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

University Health System generates cost savings from ISO 55001

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Downer gains 47% operational cost saving from implementation of IS0 55001

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Gerfor achieves savings of over 5 million dollars annually, with the use of 200 technical standards and management systems

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Bentley implemented ISO50001:2011, Energy management systems and reduces energy usage by two-thirds for each car produced

Accreditation enables TPK – ZAVOD d.d. to expand into Europe

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Ellco Etikett gains accredited certification due to lost tender

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

ISO 15189 accreditation helps Bomu Hospital improves testing results and internal efficiency

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

IBM uses ISO 14001 to save 6.7% of global energy use

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Brazilian Pharma reduces energy use by 30%

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Charity saves $6k with ISO 50001

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Safety company uses ISO 50001 to reduce costs of production by 65%

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Indian Tailor saves $40s with ISO 50001

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Shoe manufacturer saves $8m with ISO 50001

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Petrochemicals giant saves over $1m with ISO 50001

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Thai Chemicals company saves $10m with ISO 50001

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

LG Chem saves $9.4m with ISO 50001

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Hitachi saves 60m Yen per year

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Paper producer saves $1.6m with ISO 50001

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Textile manufacturer saves $318k per year with ISO 50001

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Gold Mine improves energy performance by 11.4%

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Precision manufacturer improves energy performance by 16.5% saving (US) $52,000

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Argentinian Energy company saves $271k with ISO 50001

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Engine manufacturer generates savings of $37m with ISO 50001

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Engineering company improves energy performance by 13.08%

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

$3.2m annual cost savings for paper manufacturer

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Medical Devices Provider saves €1.4 million with ISO 50001

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Cable manufacturer saves R1.5 million per year

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Irish pharmaceuticals company saves €800k with ISO 50001

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

3M saves $400k with ISO 50001 at Korean plant

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Furniture manufacturer reduces energy consumption by 5% per unit.

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Chrysler saves over $2m with accredited certification (ISO 50001)

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

US Manufacturer saves $700k per year with accredited EnMS

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

IBM plant cuts energy consumption by 9.2% and saves CAD$550,000 per year

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Welding wire and manufacturing plant cuts energy consumption by 22%

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

US Defence Contractor saves $1m per year with ISO 50001

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Toyota (South Africa) saves US$360k with ISO 50001

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Producer of car parts saves US$333,000 with ISO 50001

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Steel Company saves USD 7.6m in year 1 with ISO 50001

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

3M cuts energy costs by 15.2% with ISO 50001

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Dairy Producer saves 21% of energy costs, while increasing production by 42%

Thai Chemical company saves USD 9.4m

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Standards generate BRL 4.37 million (1.9 % of company turnover)

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Standards have a positive impact of 4.96% on EBIT for brick company

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Standards contribute between 1.1% and 2.8% of EBIT

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Standards contribute ZAR 147.5 million (USD 19.8 million) annually for cement producer

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Standards contribute 0.43% to total revenue of Indonesian concrete manufacturer

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Food factory saves over $528,000 in energy costs with ISO 50001

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Businesses earn reduced environmental levies recognition through accredited certification of ISO 14001

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Annual energy cost reductions of 13% and 11% with ISO 50001

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Electronics firms saves $32,357 with ISO 50001

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

ISO 50001 saves cement plant in Canada $2,071,309

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

ISO 50001 payback in less than 2 months for cement business

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

ADNOC saves US $150 million in energy costs over 3 years

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Arabian Cement Company saves $8.74m from ISO 50001

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

ISO 50001 reduces Mutua Madrileña costs by 7.5% per year

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Nissan Saves $9.4 Million by Implementing ISO 50001

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Accredited Waste Management Scheme generates £17m saving

Research (45 items)

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

The economic impact for manufacturing sites operating to BRCGS certification

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Accreditation and certifications. Economic value and social benefits

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

The positive economic impact of accredited certification for exporters (ISTAT, 2020)

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

World Bank Group Infographic

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

European Metrology Research Programmes boost sales of 1,627 million Euro

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Standards influence economic growth (2018)

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

ISO 22000 certified dairy companies significantly outperform the non-certified (2015)

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

ISO 9001 revision achieves its goals and offers great opportunities (2010)

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

ISO 9000 enhances organisation’s internal and external efficiency (2013)

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Quality results for Greek businesses following ISO 9001 certification (2015)

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

ISO 9001 Accredited companies show better organisational performance than non-accredited (2015)

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Environmental performance positive relationship with the operational performance for organisations with ISO 9001 (2015)

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

ISO 9000 delivers success to manufacturing organisations in Saudi Arabia (2006)

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Combined implementation of ISO 22000 and ISO 9001, proves a favourable effect on companies’ performance in Europe (2013)

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Excellence from ISO 9001 certified organisations in Cyprus (2007)

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

ISO 9000 Standards prove to benefit companies (Greece 2001)

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

ISO 14001 delivers positive results (Australia 2012)

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Investment in ISO/IEC 17020 and its impact in Latin America (August 2018)

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Innovation Dynamics and the Role of Quality Infrastructure (2012)

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Symbola report identifies environment management systems to be a competitive accelerator

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

The Economic Value of Accreditation in Australia (April 2018)

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Standards support business competitiveness in Colombia (2018)

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

The Correlation between the number of accredited laboratories and domestic GDP (January 2017)

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Does ISO 9001 pay? – An analysis of 42 studies

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Purchasers in Asia consider ISO 9001 certified suppliers to perform better

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

ISO 14001 certification provides critical positive impact on many dimensions of operational performance.

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

QMS certification enhances business performance and delivers financial benefits

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

ISO 14001 reduces waste and improves environmental performance in US manufacturing organisations

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Positive impact of integrated management system certification for Portuguese SME’s

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Austrian ISO 14001 certified organisations demonstrated improved environmental performance

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Comprehensive literature review of 82 scientific studies shows clear benefits of ISO 9001 and ISO 14001

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Environmental Management Systems Certification improves performance according to US Managers

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Australian firms enhance environmental performance and social and market positioning with ISO 14001 certification

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Harvard Business School confirms ISO 9001 US certified companies out-perform similar non-certified ones

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Spanish companies improve customer relationships with ISO 9001 certification

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

ISO 9001 certification supports success for Spanish construction companies

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Management Standards certification improve the sustainability performance of Chinese manufacturing firms

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

ISO 9001 certification has significant effect on Brazilian cardboard companies

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

ISO 9000 improves quality and performance results of Australian companies

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

ISO 9000 certification significantly impacts process innovation performance of Australian companies

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

The benefits of adopting the Quality Management Standard, ISO 9001 as a small business owner

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

The value of ISO 14001 in Australia and New Zealand

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

The Value of ISO 9001 for Australian and New Zealand Businesses

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

The value of ISO 9001 for businesses

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Supporting Material (9 items)

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Ensuring Quality to Gain Access to Global Markets : A Reform Toolkit (the World Bank)

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Guide for the Use of Standards and Accreditation in public procurement

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Inter-governmental agency promotes use of quality infrastructure to make renewable energy investment decisions

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Directory of accredited Conformity Assessment Bodies in West Africa (August 2017)

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

ISO Economic Benefits of Standards

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Standards for SMEs

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

What’s the bottom line?

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

Accredited Proficiency Testing laboratories perform better

Accreditation plays a significant role in facilitating trade, employment and GDP

What ISO standards can do for you as an SME

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