SMS Frameworks & Standards

Information about organizations and initiatives to develop sustainability management system relevant frameworks and standards.

Cradle to Cradle: A principle for Sustainability developed by William McDonough and Michael Braungart.
ISO 14000 EMS Standards: Selected information and links for ISO 14000 EMS initiatives.
Sigma Project (UK): Information and links pertaining to the Sigma Project, a UK-based collaborative effort to develop SMS Standards, Tools and Guidance documents.
SA 8000 & Social Accountability International: Information about Social Accountability International (SAI) and SA 8000 workplace standard and the associated SA8000 verification.
UN Global Compact: United Nations voluntary public private initiative to prmote a series of corporate responsibility principles grounded by international treaties.
UN Millennium Development Goals
S-Bar Sustainable Business Achievement Ratings: Sustainable Business Achievement Ratings (S-BAR) is the first comprehensive system with a market-based, broadly applicable, and transparent means of assessing a company’s environmental, economic and social performance.