BSI is committed to operating sustainably and helping other organizations operate sustainably. Using standards to establish a common language and drive innovation in sustainable practices, across sectors, is the key to creating the circular business models and moving towards a circular economy.
The impact of our everyday choices, such as the standards we hold companies to, through the products we choose to buy, add up to a collective decision and movement that supports and demands sustainability at every level of society. Standards are a way of bringing together ideas and creating a collaborative approach to sustainability.
"BSI has standards for social responsibility, we just published a new standard on managing the risk of modern slavery, which is a big issue within supply chains. In fact, a very good example is where a business might believe it doesn’t have any modern slavery, but of course they can’t be so sure about tier one, tier two, or tier three countries.
We're developing all these standards addressing ESG risk, but consumers might not be aware of them because they're ongoing and they're providing companies with the tools to identify risk, identify opportunity, and continuously improve their sustainability performance. It's there in the background." - Daan van der Wekken
"These changes are coming from many, many, many areas all at the same time – it’s forming a perfect storm and we’ve never before in history had this happening, this alliance of intensive thinking about what we buy, how we dispose, how long do we keep things, how do we manufacture, what materials do we use?
This has happened many times in history, for example the Industrial Revolution. But what we can do is at such scale because what it did not have back then is the ability to be completely interconnected, interdependent with each other. I think we are living probably, you know, in the in the most exciting moment where real change can happen." - Diana Verde Nieto