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Hello, everyone, and a very warm welcome.

Thank you for joining us for today's webinar, co-hosted by ISO

and BSI, following the launch yesterday of the new edition

of ISO 14001:2026 Environmental

Management Systems. My name is Katie Clift.

I'm Head of Public Relations at ISO, and I will be moderating today's session.

Very glad that you've tuned in from wherever in the world you're tuning in from.

We have a lot to get through, a very full agenda, and a great session to take you

through today. So we're very excited to be jumping into this webinar,

full on mode. But we will start with some housekeeping, just so you're

aware of the different points. There's a few different items on this slide that

you can read through. The main things to realize is that the session is

being recorded. You will be shared a copy afterwards,

so no need to worry about that. We do want to thank you as well for submitting your

questions in advance via registration.

We received a number of different questions that we will proceed to answer

in a Q&A at the end of the session. But as we go live today,

any question that comes to mind, you might hear an insight, you might have

additional Q&As for our panelists and speakers, we welcome you to

pop them in the top right-hand corner.

You'll see the chat function, the Q&A, so you can write your questions in live

time, and we'll see how many we can get to at the end of the session today.

So please be aware of that. As I mentioned, we have a very full agenda and

there's some really great practical tips here before we jump into that

agenda and we welcome our speakers.

So,

make sure that you make use of all the different practical tools.

You can zoom in, you can take screenshots and photos.

There's a lot of information we'll be sharing with you today.

And actually, today is really about helping you understand what the new

edition of ISO 14001 means in practice.

So not just what has changed, but what it enables.

And you're going to hear today directly from experts involved in its

development, as well as organizations applying the standard in

real-world contexts. So there's a lot of practical information

coming your way today. As you'll see, this is our first slide of the agenda.

We're going to start with opening remarks from BSI and ISO,

followed by a deep dive into the updates in ISO

14001:2026. We'll get practical insights

from implementation and procurement, perspectives on conformity

assessment and adoption, real-world impact stories, and

we'll take a broader look at the ISO 14000 family

and related standards. We will then close with a live

Q&A and final reflections. So this is slide one of the agenda.

If we quickly flip to slide two, you'll see that we have about 10

speakers and very in-depth, thorough presentations to walk you through

today. So, I know you're going to walk away with a lot of insight, a lot of great

information via this webinar, and we're very excited to get started.

As a reminder, please put your questions in that Q&A box

anytime as we proceed through the different presentations, and we hear from all the

speakers. So with that, we might begin.

So we will start with our opening remarks, with a video from

Susan Taylor Martin, Chief Executive of BSI.

Good

afternoon.

I'm sorry I can't be with you in person today because today is an important

occasion, the launch of BS EN ISO

14001:2026, the latest version of the

world's leading environmental management system standard.

Now this year, BSI celebrates 125 years of shaping

trust, enabling innovation, and building confidence.

And this year also marks the 30th anniversary of ISO

14001. So today isn't simply the publication of

the latest version of the standard.

I think it's a moment to reflect on three decades of

global environmental progress enabled by ISO

14001. 30 years ago,

ISO 14001 fundamentally changed how organizations

approached environmental responsibility.

It created a shared global framework, a common

language,

a systemic way to translate environmental ambition

into operational reality. And I can say that we hold ISO

14000 certification ourselves, and we don't ask our clients to

do what we're not prepared to do. So that matters to us.

Over the past three decades, it's become one of the most widely adopted

environmental management frameworks in the world.

And today, more than half a million ISO 14001 certifications are in

place across 180 countries. And that

represents hundreds of thousands of organizations across

industries, geographies, supply chains, choosing

to manage their environmental impacts in a structured, credible

and measurable way. The world we operate in today is more global,

more digital, more complex, and environmental risks

are increasingly interconnected.

Climate impacts are accelerating, we know that.

Biodiversity loss is intensifying.

Stakeholder expectations are rising, and the demand for transparency has

never been greater, and the need for action

has never been more acute.

Organizations are also operating under increasing scrutiny from

investors, regulators, customers, communities, all of

whom want to see credible, verifiable

evidence of environmental action.

It's not about ambition, it's not fine words, it's evidence.

This 2026 update reflects a global response to these

evolving challenges. It strengthens governance and

decision-making, and it reinforces organizational

resilience. It aligns much more clearly with emerging

priorities, including natural capital, biodiversity, and

climate adaptationThis is not a routine update.

It is a major step forward designed for the realities of our time

and for the expectations organizations will face in the years

ahead. At BSI, our purpose is clear: create

impact for a fair society and sustainable world.

And obviously, environmental stewardship sits at the very heart of that.

A sustainable world depends on organizations that manage their environmental

impacts consistently and strategically and

transparently. And a fair society depends on protecting resources and

ecosystems for future generations while enabling

economic progress today. For 125 years,

standards have been the mechanism through which ambition becomes action and

goals become reality in safety, in quality, in innovation,

and increasingly, in sustainability.

Standards create alignment across borders.

They build trust between organizations and stakeholders,

and they can turn complex global challenges into structured,

actionable frameworks. ISO 14001 is one of the

clearest examples of that power in practice.

BSI was a founding member of ISO, and indeed, ISO

14001 started life as a British standard, BS

7750. Our standards now underpin more than

80% of global trade, not as background infrastructure,

but as the active mechanism through which innovation can be

scaled, new markets can be accessed, and supply chains can be

activated, all because trust is built using standards.

The development of this edition of 14001 was a

genuinely collective endeavor. Environmental challenges do not

respect borders,

and solutions can't either. ISO 14001 is

founded on international consensus, shared expertise, shared

responsibility, and shared ambition, and that collective

approach is more important now than ever.

The next chapter of ISO 14001 will help organizations strengthen

governance, enhance resilience, and demonstrate credible,

measurable environmental impact.

It gives leaders the tools to embed environmental thinking into strategy

and to anticipate rather than react, and to

demonstrate real accountability to those who depend on

them. But its value will only be realized when organizations choose

to use it with genuine intent. Because certification is a starting

point. It's not a destination.

The goal is not compliance. It's leadership.

So as we mark today's milestone, I want to encourage every organization

here to see this not just as a new standard to meet,

but as an opportunity to raise the bar.

Thank you for being part of this, and thank you for your commitment

to creating impact for a fair society and sustainable world.

Thank you very much to Susan for kicking us off with a great video.

We will now continue our opening remarks, and I'm pleased to welcome Noelia

García Nebreda, head of sustainability and partnerships at ISO,

to continue our opening remarks. Noelia, over to you.

Thank you so much, Katie, and good day, everyone, and welcome.

I'm Noelia García Nebreda, head of sustainability and partnerships at ISO,

and it's a real pleasure to have you with us today.

This webinar marks an important moment, not only for ISO

14001, but for environmental management more broadly.

What we are seeing globally is a clear shift.

Environmental sustainability is no longer a peripheral

concern. It is now central to how organizations

operate, how they create value, and how they build resilience for the

future.

At ISO, environmental sustainability has been a

core part of our mission for long.

Through international standards, we provide practical, globally

trusted frameworks that help organizations translate

environmental responsibility into consistent,

effective action across sectors, across borders,

and throughout supply chains.

ISO 14001 has played a central role in this

for many years. It helps organizations move from

intention to implementation, embedding environmental

management into everyday operations and decision making.

Today's session will focus on the new edition of ISO

14001,

its benefits, and key updates,

but also on how it fits within the broader ISO's

portfolio.

Environmental challenges are interconnected.

ISO standards reflect this through complementary

work on areas such as biodiversity, climate

adaptation, or resource efficiency.

Together, they support a more cohesive and integrated

approach to sustainability.

The context in which organizations operate continues to evolve.

Climate change, biodiversity loss, pressure on natural resources.

These are no longer distant risks.

They are immediate and systematic challenges.

At the same time, expectations from regulators, investors, customers,

and society at large are continuing to raise.

ISO standards are reviewed regularly to remain relevant and

effective.

The 2026 edition of ISO 14001

responds directly to this changing landscape.

It builds on trusted global foundations while offering

greater clarity, improved usability, and stronger

alignment with today's environmental priorities.

The intention was not to reinvent the standard, but to refine and

strengthen itMaking it easier to understand,

implement, and integrate into broader management systems.

Advancing sustainability is a shared effort across

ISO, our members, and the global community of

organizations that use standards in practice.

We hope today's session provides useful insights and

practical guidance as you continue your work.

Thank you so much.

Katie, back to you. Thank you.

Fantastic, Noelia. Thank you, and thank you to Susan and Noelia for both setting

the scene so clearly with those opening remarks.

We're now going to move into the detail of the new edition of ISO

14001, what's changed, and importantly, what that

means in practice for organizations.

Now, I'm very pleased to introduce our next speakers from ISO

TC207SC1, which is the technical committee that led

the development of the standard. So we have Amarjit Kaur,

ISO TC207SC1 technical expert and

chair of Malaysia's National Mirror Committee for EMS, also director

of SHEMSI. Welcome. And Andrew Marlow, ISO

TC207SC1 technical expert,

member of BSI National Mirror Committee for EMS, and managing director

of One Planet Solutions. Great to have you both with us, and

I'll hand over to you first, Amarjit.

Right. Thank you, Katie, for that introduction

and good evening, good morning, good afternoon to everybody.

I'm here in Malaysia, so it is good evening to

others that are in this part of the world.

I'm very happy and proud to participate in this

session and to talk to you about ISO

14001 2026.

There

will also be contribution from Andrew as well

on the

new standard. So I will start off the session,

basically looking at the bigger picture, more

strategic

implications and benefits of the standard, and then I'll pass

it over to Andrew to talk about the details.

Can I have the next slide, please?

So everybody's probably wondering what's changed.

Well, to answer that, I suppose you'll have to pick up the standard and read

it, and then you'll find out what has changed

in detail. But let me just explain to you,

again, from the big picture, what has been enhanced.

So obviously, there has been some enhancement in

the requirements related to context,

there has been improved alignment with the harmonized structure,

and

the working group actually put a lot of effort and time

into making sure the Annex A,

which is a guidance to the standard, has been enhanced.

So I'll go through these and obviously, like I mentioned earlier on,

Andrew would probably go into the details as well.

Can I have the next slide, please?

So why does this matter, those changes, why it makes a difference?

And the earlier speakers have already mentioned that obviously we are

facing a lot of pressures from things like climate change,

biodiversity loss, ecosystem degradation, and so on and so forth.

And of course, stakeholders are expecting more transparency,

accountability,

actions as well from the corporate sector and every

organization, there's an expectation that corporate behavior

changes. Yeah, in terms of making sure that the

pressures are being

addressed,

not only by governments, but also the business sector

as well.

So obviously, the implications are organizations will have to make sure that

you understand your context better, you have better systems in place to

manage your impacts, risks, and opportunities. Next slide, please.

So I think many of you have seen these.

This is the context that we are working within now,

as a business, as even an SME or even a large

organization, there are so many expectations out there, there are regulations out

there,

there are disclosure requirements and whatnot.

So 14001 2026

in the revision has been

aimed at trying to help organizations deal with this

multitude of

pressures out there that are faced by organizations.

Next, please.

And even in terms of

acquiring funding and investment, we all know that investors now look

at organization sustainability performance, and if you look around,

even agencies or rating agencies are looking at environmental

performance, and I've given you an example of S&P Global's

assessment where ISO 14001 is specifically mentioned.

In addition, even the other schemes like EcoVadis mentions ISO

14001. So that just means that ISO 14001 has a

very important role now in terms of supporting sustainability

and also to assist organizations with sourcing funding.

Next, please.

So it's no longer just a compliance focus standard.

It never was, but it ceases to be that only now.

It now has become a tool or something that

can enable an organization to be able to understand its environmental context

and how impacts connect

under the umbrella of sustainabilityOf course, impacts across the value chain,

understanding risks and opportunities resulting from this, and look

at environmental performance in a more strategic

point of view. The standard allows organizations

actually to look at environmental management systems and performance

as well at a more strategic level.

Next, please.

So example, how 14001 fits into all of this.

I spoke about disclosure requirements.

In order to meet disclosure requirements, due diligence

expectations, obviously an organization would be required to understand risks,

impacts, and

required to churn out information on performance.

So this is where 14001 becomes a good tool to help.

In fact, now when you need to think about your context, you need to

seriously think about your environmental conditions, identify your aspects.

It applies a risk-based approach, and also it allows

you to identify performance results and help to

communicate. So this fits in very well with the expectations that are out

there on disclosures and due diligence.

Next, please.

So I'm going to just touch on a few of these, and I'll leave Andrew to touch on

some of these as well. Let's talk about environmental conditions.

As far as context is concerned, you've always had to determine

issues that are important. Now, the

standard actually touches on, mentions on the examples of

environmental conditions that you should be considering when you think about the

context and designing your EMS. And the examples given

are pollution, natural resource availability, climate change priorities, and

these are all current and, I believe, future issues that need to be

taken into account in any organization's environmental management system.

Next, please.

Better alignment with harmonized structure.

Obviously, this is to help organizations who want to put in place integrated

management systems, so you get to save resources, but I'll get Andrew to

elaborate on this. Next, please.

And Annex A, all I want to say is that a lot of effort has been

put into this and

everyone in the working group and SC1 as well,

our message to everyone is to make sure that you read Annex A,

the guidance itself, because there's a lot of information in there to help you.

Again, Andrew would elaborate on this a little bit more. Keep going.

Next, please.

Lifecycle perspective has always been there, but it has been enhanced.

There's more information, more explanation on lifecycle perspective.

And we all know in an EMS, this is very important because

in an organization, when you're setting up an EMS, you need to make sure that

you're not shifting impacts in other parts of your value chain.

So that's why taking a lifecycle perspective is vital

in terms of designing your EMS and thinking about your environmental impacts.

And this has been enhanced with more examples provided in the annex.

Next, please.

Again, there's more improvement in the information provided in Annex A,

and I will leave Andrew to talk about this. Next, please.

So what does this mean for organization? Obviously for SMEs.

Let's start with SMEs.

The standard provides a structured but flexible framework because

there's not much expectation for organization to

come up with tons and tons of documentation.

It allows organizations to decide what documentation you need.

And of course, as an SME, it allows you to support customer

requirements, supply chain expectations, and also it's like the first step.

It will help you to

take on board larger ESG matters as well.

And of course, for larger organizations,

it allows you to look at environmental performance as part of

your risk management as well, helps you with disclosures, avoid

duplication in terms of being able to integrate management system,

and of course, helps to strengthen governance and consistency.

Next, please.

So these are some of the key takeaways, but I'll get Andrew to continue

on, and he can explain a bit more about the key takeaways. Thank you.

Okay. Thank you, Amarjeet, for your insight

into the strategic background of the revision process.

My presentation

will take that strategic overview given by

Amarjeet and drill down into the changes that have been

made to support the key objectives of the revision.

But before we look at some examples of the revision,

it is important to say, over the next five minutes or so,

I will cover samples of the issues that I think are important to

note and for you to consider in

the revision process. However, there may

be other examples not covered in this presentation.

So do consider your own gap analysis

between your current environmental management system

and the requirements of the new edition of ISO

14001:2026.

So for example, in my first slide,

I will look at

the requirements of the harmonized structure and its role in

the revision processWe should note

that this structure, the harmonised structure, forms the

foundation for all management system standards,

such as ISO 9001 for quality management

and ISO 45001 for health and

safety management, as well as for ISO

14001 and a whole host of other management system

standards. So if you're an organization that

has more than one management system standard, then

it will help in implementing the similar

arrangements in each of those standards into a more

integrated management system. So there is already a

benefit of the harmonized structure.

For the new edition, there are changes in Clause

3 in the terms and definitions, and most

notably to highlight a combined term, risk and

opportunities, as opposed to the term

risk that was in the 2015 edition.

And that links to a new Clause 6.1.4,

which helps to fully implement the risk and

opportunity structure within your environmental management

system.

Additionally, there's a new definition of policy to align more

closely with the quality management system standard

9001.

Change management is brought to your attention as a new clause on

the planning of change in Clause 6.3,

which will assist organizations to build processes to

be more effective in their response to

change, and that can be business

change or it can be environmental changes.

In line with quality management systems, the term

outsourced is replaced by externally

provided products, service, and processes to

provide a greater focus on contractors and

others that can support the organization's environmental

management system.

Internal audit is given a revision with a requirement

to document audit program and the audit

objectives, and this has the opportunity to

provide an additional focus on the role of internal

audit.

My final example on this slide is the influence of the

harmonized structure

from the new edition in respect to management

review.

Where greater clarity is given by splitting the requirements

into general management review inputs and management review

results, so giving greater clarity to those

processes that can drive the environmental management

system from a top management perspective downwards.

Within my next slide, we can look at the changes

that enhanced usability of the new edition.

There is greater clarification on risk and opportunities,

which is often confused with only relating to

environmental aspects and impacts.

But here, it allows for a greater strategic

approach to the environmental management system.

As hinted earlier, there are reordering of

clauses to provide greater linkage between

requirements, and these linkages are highlighted within the

requirements and the accompanying notes to make

it a more usable standard in the flow for the

user to be able to understand the requirements and how they relate to each

other.

One highlighted issue for users was they wanted

greater clarity on concepts like the life cycle

perspective, which Amarjeet mentioned during her

presentation, and they welcomed an opportunity

for more information to enable them to more effectively

embed life cycle perspective within their organizations.

Accordingly, a note to the requirements and greater

guidance is given in Annex A of

14001:2026.

And finally, previously separate clauses on improvement

and continual improvement have been merged to

provide a greater focus on these twin issues

that are designed to improve the performance of the environmental

management system.

My final slide recognizes the importance

of Annex A as Amarjeet mentioned during her

presentation, which has been comprehensively revised

to provide greater clarity to concepts such as

leadership, organizational culture,

environmental responsibility, and employee engagement,

bringing together targeted guidance for users

new to the ISO 14001 standard or

those refreshing their existing environmental management

system.

There is much that Annex A can provide to

users of 14001. So do

consider implementing not only the clause requirements,

but also using the wealth of information that Annex

A provides.

This will help your organization to truly gain the

optimal benefits for your environmental management system

based on ISO

14001:2026 by

aligning your organization's strategy and

integrating your environmental management system

requirements into your business

processesSo, I appreciate that is

a short presentation, and there are many other opportunities

to dive into the contents

of the new standard. But for now, I thank you for

the opportunity to present the highlights from the

revision of 14001 to the

2026 edition. And I will now pass you back

to Katie. Thank you.

Fantastic, Andrew. Thank you so much, and thank you to Andrew and Amajit together

for that comprehensive presentation, all the detail in the changes to the standard

and what they mean very concretely. That was fantastic.

We're now going to shift from the what to the how, and we'll look at how

ISO 14001 is being applied in practice,

specifically in procurement. So this is ISO 14001

in procurement, a success story. We welcome James Skuza,

Director of Environment at Metrolinx. James, the floor is yours.

Thank you, Katie. Thank you to ISO and BSI for organizing this event

today.

I'm James Skuza, Director of Environment for Metrolinx in Toronto, Canada.

It amazes me to see the magnitude of this event today with people tuning in from

all across the globe, and I'm grateful to have the opportunity to speak to you

here, albeit briefly, but I hope to cover off a major success for our

organization with the help of ISO 14001.

My contact information is available at the end of the presentation, should there

be any reason to connect after today.

So Metrolinx, previously under the name of GO Transit, was established in Toronto,

Canada in 1967 as Canada's first regional public transit

rail system, servicing 2.5 million riders per year.

As you can see in our vision, values, and our mission to champion,

develop, and implement an integrated transportation system that enhances

prosperity, sustainability and quality of life, we take the matter of

sustainability very seriously, and it's a pillar under which we operate.

Today, we service over 70 million riders annually across our bus,

rail and light rail rapid transit transportation systems,

all within the Greater Toronto Area.

We anticipate an estimated 200 million riders per year by

2055.

We're currently in the midst of a major transit expansion initiative, which has

seen substantial infrastructure upgrades and significant transit construction

projects to expand current services and increase service

frequency.

Part of that plan has already invested $12 billion to

date and is expected to remove an estimated

145,000 cars off the road each and every

day. As part of this plan, we also expect to electrify over

600 kilometers of rail track over the coming years, which will

contribute to our corporate goals around GHG reduction of our operations.

Now, with all these major expansion projects comes dozens of partnerships with

key large-scale constructors, working alliances,

engineering firms, et cetera, through which we've embedded ISO

14001 requirements into standard contract language.

You can move on to the next slide, please.

So Metrolinx utilizes various schedules that make up project

agreements for construction and expansion projects.

There's a dedicated environmental schedule that clearly defines the environmental

requirements for the project, most notably a requirement for the project

to implement and maintain an EMS conforming to the ISO

14001 standard. Contractors on these projects are

required to have various environmental staff to support the needs of the EMS.

This can fluctuate based on the project size, perceived environmental risks,

et cetera.

Above and beyond the obvious requirement of complying to all environmental

regulations, most projects include stipulations around

soil and water contamination, archaeological or cultural

heritage assessments, air quality, noise and vibration

management, and additional considerations around endangered species,

preservation of the natural environment, as well as greenhouse gas

inventories and climate resiliency assessments.

Regular reporting, usually monthly, quarterly, or an annual report,

summarizes all this data and initiatives related to significant

environmental aspects as identified through the project's EMS.

These are reviewed by dedicated Metrolinx environmental staff to ensure the

EMS is meeting its objectives, and we're also involved in EMS

reviews which contribute to the continuous improvement cycle of

the EMS.

Certain technological systems are being utilized, and

consideration around mandating such systems is ongoing.

If we can get all projects utilizing the same systems, it will ensure continuity

of reporting and data across all projects.

This has been particularly helpful for us with soil management and

spill reporting tracking.

We've also placed a great deal of emphasis on project turnover,

ensuring that once projects are completed and all the relevant environmental

assessments and reports are received and retained for record-keeping and continuous

improvement purposes.

Now, one of the added benefits of having a prescribed EMS is

that as per ISO 14001 requirements, there's a need to regularly

assess the system, scope, and applicability, including a

review of environmental activities, aspects, and impacts, which may adjust as

the project proceeds through its work schedule.

So often there's an opportunity to see for these adjustments to be made within

the EMS outside of requirements of the structured

contractual requirements that

may take a longer period of time to reflect necessary changes.

You can skip to the next slide.

So most project agreements focus on several key environmental areas when it

comes to construction and expansion of our network.

Climate resiliency assessments have become commonplace as we continue to see

increases in temperature and extreme weather events.

Any projects with a capital cost of over $50 million must go through a

climate risk and vulnerability assessment to ensure that what we're building is

able to withstand future weather eventsSoil, water, and waste

contamination and management is also key, as nearly all projects

involve substantial excavations in which we're dealing with excess

soil, water tables, and generating general construction waste.

On this note, we've worked tirelessly with contractors to ensure proper spill

reporting, not just to government bodies but also

internally, all tracked using one

system, allowing us to determine trends and set better controls for

projects moving forward. There's also a software that we use to track

all movement of soil away from our construction sites, again,

providing that uniformity across our projects.

As much of our construction occurs in density-packed residential areas,

there are plenty of controls that need to be in place to manage construction noise,

vibration, and air quality. This becomes a significant sticking

point with our residential neighbors as we're looking to

maintain good corporate citizenship, and we often go above and beyond in these

areas. On occasion, there's also archaeological or

cultural heritage requirements, as well as further assessments for endangered

species or preservation of natural environment in

environmentally sensitive areas.

Lastly, various projects have also been tasked with calculating their

greenhouse gas inventories, and as an

organization, we continue to track and calculate our Scope 3 emissions.

There's been tremendous work done in completing our GHG inventory, focusing on

Scope 1 and 2s, but with the help of these contractual requirements, we

continue to work with our construction partners to further gather this information.

Next slide, please.

So there's two main barriers that exist from my perspective for embedding an

EMS into our contract language: legacy contracts and

budgetary constraints. Certain construction and expansion projects

have been in existence for many years, and in some cases, such stringent

environmental requirements may not have been present.

While there are still references to an EMS, there could be concerns over

updating of the language, which could trigger significant negotiations or legal

considerations. In these instances, we've worked closely

with our construction partners to embed any changes into the EMS through

that continuous improvement cycle.

We've been successful in many cases, especially with spills reporting

requirements, which have been significantly enhanced over the last few

years. From a budget perspective, there's always budgetary

concerns to implementing a formal EMS, having dedicated staff,

sometimes other voluntary environmental assessments that we require

in the grand scheme of things. But we believe they're necessary, and through

project scope assessments and determining the extent of the

potential environmental risk, there are adjustments that can be made to

environmental requirements to fit each and every project.

Another factor that of course, I'm sure everyone in the room is fully aware of is,

the cost of environmental non-compliance or potential remediation

should a significant environmental occurrence occur.

Such penalties can be extreme and costly, not just in dollars, but also in

organizational reputation.

Some successes as a result of embedding the EMS requirements into our

construction contracts include uniformity moving forward,

enhanced environmental protection, and vastly improved reporting.

Aligning contract language and utilizing a standard schedule

template moving forward provides uniformity for future project works.

With the enhancement of the environmental schedule, we can ensure improved

environmental protection for various environmental aspects.

And with the introduction of certain reporting software, we've been able to drive

ease of access to the data on both the contractor and our

side of operations. Also allowing for various project to use the same reporting

system, particularly with soil management and spill response protocols.

Next slide.

So this does bring me to the end of my presentation.

It's very high level based on the allotted time, but the benefits of driving EMS

requirements through contractual obligations have been a significant step

forward for Metrolinx in terms of environmental due diligence and also pushing

continuous environmental improvements.

Again, I thank you all for your time here today. Back to you, Katie.

Fantastic, James. Thank you so much.

Thank you for all those examples there in terms of how ISO 14001

drives value in real operational context. That was fantastic.

We're now going to briefly turn to conformity assessment and what the new

addition means for adoption and assurance.

And I'm pleased to welcome Howard Dawes, global training technical lead,

assessor, and tutor academy at BSI Assurance to

take us through the next presentation. Howard, thank you for joining us.

Over to you.

Thanks, Katie, and good morning, good afternoon, and good

evening, everyone. And thank you, ISO as well for the opportunity for

speaking today.

My name's Howard, Howard Dawes, global training technical lead for

sustainability, health, safety, and wellbeing,

here at BSI.

I've just got a short segment now just to cover off one

practical question to make ourselves ready for

14001 2026.

What is the difference between adopting the standard

internally and going through that independent conformity

assessment for certification, and why does that

matter?

So just to move on, a quick bit of context.

For those of you who don't know, BSI supports organizations through

standards and information solutions and through assurance services

such as system certification, internal and supplier audits, and

also training. For today, the key point is that

standards and conformity assessment work together.

The standard provides the requirements for an effective management system,

and conformity assessment provides the confidence, internally and

externally,

that those requirements are actually being

met.So what does that mean? Why is that

important? This matters, if you want to move on to the next slide, because

14001, as Susan mentioned at the top of this presentation,

this is one of the most widely used environmental management system standards

in the world. Based on the latest ISO survey, there are

more than 600,000 organizations that are certified

globally, covering more than a million sites, and the

standard is used across a wide range of sectors, from

construction, as we've just seen, and transport, to

chemicals, food, pharmaceuticals.

That scale means that 14001 has become a

common language that customers, regulators, investors, and

supply chains recognize.

So moving on, let's define the first route

that organizations can take, and we'll move on to the next slide.

Standard adoption,

sometimes described as self-declared EMS.

Here, the organization implements 14001

requirements internally and then evaluates its own

conformity through self-assessment and internal audit.

This can be flexible and cost-effective, and it clearly demonstrates intent

and internal commitment, particularly for organizations

building capability, piloting an EMS, or

operating in markets where external certification isn't

expected or perhaps required.

The trade-off, of course, is external visibility.

Without independent verification, recognition is

often limited, and interested parties may ask how you have

validated your claims. In other words, adoption can be

excellent for strengthening internal control and performance, but it

may not provide the level of external confidence

that some stakeholders will be requiring.

Now, moving on. Compare that with conformity

assessment through independent certification.

In this route, the EMS is audited by an accredited

third party, and formal certification is issued,

and then surveillance and recertification audits provide

ongoing checks and that the system remains

effective and continues to meet requirements.

The key difference then is credibility.

Certification demonstrates externally validated performance

and is widely recognized by regulators, customers, and supply

chains. That's why I often summarize it like this:

adoption builds a system,

certification builds trust.

It's important to say both approaches deliver value, but in

different ways. Adoption provides that internal confidence.

It helps you understand your environmental aspects, your risks and

opportunities, the controls and performance, and embeds

environmental management into day-to-day operations.

Certification provides external confidence.

It shows that those claims have been independently assessed.

Commercial reality also drives that choice.

Supply chains increasingly expect certification, and

regulators and stakeholders tend to trust independent

verification more readily than self-declaration.

So my overall recommendation as part of today's

launch of the standard is going to be balanced.

Certification is not always mandatory, but it is

often strategically advantageous.

It's not just about doing the right things, it's also about being

able to demonstrate them credibly.

So

let's move on to some practical steps now that the standard has been released.

What should organizations do now that 14001

2026 has been launched?

For those existing users, transition doesn't

need or shouldn't need to feel overwhelming.

Think of it as an evolution rather than a complete reset,

and start early. So step one is to understand the

changes, review the updated requirements, and identify

what's new or revised. For example, areas that's

been mentioned, such as climate, lifecycle, and risk,

so you know what needs attention.

Step two is to conduct a gap assessment.

Compare your current EMS against the revised requirements and

prioritize the gaps that are high risk or high impact.

The aim is to focus effort where it matters most.

The next step, step three, is to update the EMS.

Next slide. Revise the processes, documented

information, and controls where needed, and

integrate the changes into business operations,

not just into the documentation, i.e. the paperwork.

Step four, build awareness and evidence of competence.

Train key roles, leadership, internal auditors,

operational teams so they understand the new expectations and

can apply them consistently.

Step five

is to verify readiness.

Conduct internal audits against the revised standards and address

non-conformities and weaknesses.

And this is where you turn preparation into evidence.

And step six is to engage your certification body, if

certification is, of course, part of your strategic

journey. Plan the transitional recertification audit and

align the timing with your certification cycle.

Early engagement usually

creates more options and a smoother

transition.Across all six steps,

keep one message in mind,

focus on integration, not just compliance or

conformance. The most successful transition, or indeed adoption,

are the ones that embed the changes into how the

organization actually operates.

So I'll close with a takeaway. Final slide.

Whether you choose self-declaration or certification,

and whether you're implementing for the first time of transitioning

into 14001:2026, the goal is the

same.

A system that not only manages and aims to prevent negative

environmental impacts, but also stands up to scrutiny and

delivers environmental performance improvement.

And that concludes my presentation, and thank you ever so much for listening and

for your time. There is one more slide, I think, David.

I'll pass back to Katie. Thanks ever so much.

Excellent, Howard. Thank you so much.

I think that you answered a lot of questions that have already come through via

registration and live as we've started the webinar.

So we really appreciate your presentation into conformity assessment and standards

adoption. I'll also take this opportunity to say, if you do have

a question based on anything our speakers have already touched on,

an insight that's come to you that you'd really like one of our panelists to

speak to at the end of the webinar when we have our Q&A session, please use

the function at the top right-hand corner of the screen to submit a question.

We're going to get through as many as we can after the presentations and

after all our speakers have a chance to intervene.

But now we're going to continue that practical lens, and we'll hear

directly from a user perspective on how ISO 14001

translates into measurable outcomes in an organization.

Julie Davidson is head of business assurance at Jointline, and we're

so glad to have you, Julie, to talk us through a customer's ISO

14001 impact journey. Over to you.

Thank you, Katie, for that introduction.

It's an absolute honor to speak to you all today about our real-world

experiences as to how 14001 has

helped our specific business and the

impactful influence that it continues to have on

our day-to-day operations. I'll be

sharing with you today some of the tangible impacts that the

standard continues to have to the way that we,

as Jointline, do business, and to try and share with you

why we value it as a standard.

The next slide, please.

We are a medium-sized business. We're based

in the UK. We've been operational since

1987. We've got

125 employees, and we sit within the

construction sector.

We've held this standard since 2010, and it was the

second ISO standard that my business

introduced.

We operate in a number of niche markets, and I'll briefly give you

some of the context so that you

know a little bit about what we do.

Next slide, please. If any of you have

visited the UK and you've flown in, you will

likely have experienced our work, because we

undertake a lot of line marking and ancillary

services for a lot of the UK's largest airports,

such as Heathrow or Edinburgh.

We also undertake a lot of work on

motorways. So the next slide will show you that

if ever you've driven in the UK, you will likely have come across our

work because we install all the lines for the

major road networks within the country.

Next slide, please. But it's not just roads and

airfields that we work in. We undertake a lot of various

off-highways works as well, so sports pitches, like you can

see. And if ever any of you have brought from any large

distribution centers, such as Amazon, you again will have

been indirectly impacted by our works.

Next slide. Finally, we do a lot of

civil engineering work, particularly in the forestry

sector, where we maintain a lot of the forests

within the UK. So in the environmental

aspect here, in particular, is really focused on

by that client.

And if we could move on, please, to why Jointline

consider that ISO 14001 is

more than just a piece of paper. It has played

an absolutely fundamental role in helping us to

achieve our organizational goals as a whole.

Our vision is to be both an employer and

a supplier of choice. And

the introduction of 14001 as our

environmental management system has been instrumental in

making that mission statement a reality for us

because of the way it strengthens our reputation and the

trust that not just our clients, but also our

staff place in us.

Next slide, please. By embedding

14001 into our core business processes,

it's given us a robust framework that's allowed us to both

measure and monitor the impact of our

works. It gives us a structured method

for that real early identification of risk

and to therefore reduce it and hopefully exceed the

expectations that our clients have of

us.It really encourages us as well to

continually improve the way that we deliver our works, and it leads

us to foster those improved relationships, not just with our

clients, but as has been mentioned before, also with our supply

chain.

So moving on,

waste reduction is a real key part of this for

us, and our strategy has

really been to drive that waste

downwards and to assess our waste streams rigorously.

We don't want to send anything to landfill if we can help it, and

we really work hard to reuse and

reduce and recycle.

For example, when we purchased road studs, historically, they would

come in single-use plastic. We worked hard

with our suppliers because it's not as easy due to the weight to

shift that. We've now developed, just for our

business, reusable sleeves that they come in, we

store them, and they get returned to the supplier for reuse.

And so many of the improvements that we've had have been collaborative efforts with

our suppliers, and this way really helped

to contribute towards that circular economy.

Next slide, please.

We have seen tangible cost savings by implementing

14001 and managing excuse me,

managing our environmental footprint through it,

really challenges us to use our resources

effectively and save energy. So an example there might be a

switch to LED lighting within our depots, push

taps within our staff restrooms, so that there's

no water wastage. And it encourages us to be really

creative in the way that we do business.

So you may be able to see from the picture here, hopefully it's big enough for

you to see, but that we've fitted solar panels onto the top of

our work vans. And what we do, we capture this solar

energy in a battery inside the vehicle,

excuse me,

and we then can power our lighting and

ancillary requirements within the vehicle when we're on-site.

Historically, we had to leave our engine idling to do this, where we

needed flashing beacons, for example, on construction sites, and

coming up with this new way of working

means that we don't have to do that.

So next slide, please.

I apologize for my dry throat.

The value that we draw from 14001 within Joint Line

though, it goes beyond operational gains, and it has

directly supported our business growth.

It has enabled us to secure much larger contracts than we had

historically won. And we now work

excuse me, for clients such as National

Highways, who look after all the motorways in

England, and like I've mentioned before, big clients

such as Heathrow Airport, who place a huge emphasis

on good environmental management.

It opens doors for us, as the next slide will show.

That competitive edge in today's marketplace is

absolutely crucial for us, and a lot of these opportunities would be

inaccessible if it weren't for having this good

demonstration of how we do business.

So the next slide will explain that we take a comprehensive

approach within our business. We had a foundation of

9001, which is our quality standard, as you may know.

And in 2010, we successfully integrated

14001. And since then, we

have

complemented those two with many other standards, such as

45001, 44001,

collaborative business relationships,

39001 for road risk. So we take this really

seriously. But 14001 gave us

a wonderful base with which to bring in our latest

standard of PAS 2080, which really

focuses on carbon. And the setup that

we had in place with 14001 enabled

that to be a lot easier than it might otherwise have been.

So in effect, it was helping us to future-proof our journey and the

way forward.

So getting towards the end of my presentation, and the next slide

will try to explain that this really has been

transformative to us. It's a way of thinking,

and it provides us with that disciplined set of processes

that we genuinely use daily as a business.

It strengthens trust, and it cements our position

as a responsible employer.

And because we've been raising the bar in the way that we utilize

14001 up to now,

we feel confident that our senior managers are already

involved, and that this new edition of

14001 will

be absolutely fine for us to implement.

But it's not just a requirement, it's a

responsibility for us to do it.

So I will finish off there by saying thank you very much for listening.

Hopefully, some of you can reach out afterwards. It'll be lovely to connect.

And handing back to you, Katie.

Absolutely brilliant, Julie. Thank you for your insights and what was a really

strong illustration of impact in practice.

It was great to hear from you. We're now going to zoom out slightly to look at the

broader ISO 14000 family and how these standards

work together. So I will invite Nidita Ramashala,

manager of the Standardization Division, Trinidad and Tobago Bureau of

Standards, to take us through exploring the ISO 14000

family of environmental standards. Great to have you, Nidita.

The floor is yours.

Thank you, Katie. Good day, everyone. My name is Nadita Ramcharow.

I was recently appointed as a twin chair of ISO/TC

207, and I'm happy to be part of today's session

to speak about the ISO 14000 family of environmental

standards. Next slide, please.

The ISO/TC 207 develops international standards that

respond to global environmental challenges.

We can see that this

technical committee has a wide membership, 128

members,

77 published standards, and 18 standards are currently

under development. These standards overall are practical tools that

guide organizations in managing environmental

responsibilities in a systematic and credible way.

Some of the key committees or subcommittees under TC 207

include environmental management systems, environmental auditing and

related practices, environmental labeling,

environmental performance evaluation, life cycle assessment, and very

importantly, greenhouse gas and climate change.

Next slide, please.

This slide speaks to how the ISO 14001

sits within the wider family of environmental management

standards. At the center is the environmental management

system framework, so ISO 14001, and around it are the

related standards that support organizations in areas such as

understanding context, internal auditing, monitoring and

evaluation, emergency preparedness and response,

operational planning and control, climate change

adaptation, biodiversity, water resources, and waste.

Also covered would be life cycle assessment, carbon footprint,

environmental communication, and labels and declarations.

The key message from this slide is that ISO 14001

provides the management system framework foundation, while

the wider ISO 14000 family strengthens

implementation in specific technical areas.

For example, there's ISO 14002 Part 2 dealing

with water under environmental aspects.

And I would like to highlight that there's a forthcoming standard that deals with

climate, ISO 14002 Part 3, as well

as Part 4 dealing with resources and waste.

Very importantly, you will see under operational planning and

control, the concept of eco design and environmentally conscious

design. We also have other supporting standards, for example,

ISO 22320 dealing with

emergency management as well as biodiversity.

So overall, the key message here is that there are many supporting

standards that support EMS and very

importantly, monitor and measurement analysis and

evaluation would be key to assessing the success of the

EMS. So there's quantification and reporting of GHGs,

and we will be hearing about natural carbon accounting for

organizations as well. Next slide.

We would have heard earlier how pervasive the ISO 14001

certification would have been from Howard.

There is wide industry adoption, and it has been stated that

over 63% of ISO

14001 certifications come from chemical, energy, and

manufacturing sectors. We also have the 14000

standard supporting sustainability trends,

and 48% of large enterprises

plan to integrate sustainability focused standards into their operations.

Additionally, there are a number of economic benefits, as we have heard

before.

These standards support regulated markets.

They support policy and regulatory frameworks, and of course,

lower capital costs and appealing to the more

environmentally conscious society.

Next slide.

One of the key benefits of the ISO 14001

is that it can be aligned with other management systems,

including quality, energy, occupational

health and safety, and other related frameworks.

This supports integrated management systems, allowing

organizations to streamline processes, improve

governance, and make more coherent decisions across

different areas of performance. Some of the

key aspects with the integrated management system, and of course,

ISO 9001 being the foundational standard, is that

it supports addressing governance, risk and opportunities,

compliance management, operational processes, and for those

who are very familiar with the ISO standards, it is based on the

Annex SL, so the common elements for these

standards are shared across the management system.

So it provides a very coherent and comprehensive way to manage

the organization. It looks at

the scope, risk, and opportunities, and

also a key aspect would be looking at cultural factors or

risk treatment,

as well as recognizing any gaps that exist and making

improvements to the overall management system.

Therefore, the ISO 14000 is well

integrated into other management systems.

It can even span ISO/IEC 27000

series, looking at information security, also business

continuity management. There's no limit in terms of the

integration.

So next

slideOne

of the key initiatives under ISO/TC

207 would be the developing country engagement

strategy, and this is focused on

encouraging developing countries to participate in international

standardization and to ensure that the perspectives and needs of

developing countries are reflected in the development of

international standards for the environment.

The overall importance of outreach and engagement

cannot be

underscored. We have a number of strategies within the

developing country engagement document, looking at training,

facilitating communities of practice, developing case studies and

application tools. Also workshops with

policy leaders through the ISO members of the

national standards bodies on enhancing communication

strategies using digital platforms.

Next slide, please.

I would just like to highlight some of the key upcoming standards

under the purview of ISO/TC 207. There

is, first off, on climate guidelines for using

the 14001 to address climate-related environmental

aspects and conditions. This standard is actually in FDIS, so it is

very close to finalization and publication.

There's also 14025 looking at environmental

product declarations, and that covers environmental statements

and programs for products, and again, FDIS, so very close to

completion. We also have a draft international

standard addressing resources and waste guidelines for

using the ISO 14001 to address resources,

circularity, and waste-related environmental aspects.

And finally, at the committee stage, or CD, we have

CD 14060, looking at net zero

aligned organizations, and this is very significant.

There has been a lot of discussion around net zero

internationally. This international standard will provide the framework

for organizations aligning governance strategy and action

with net zero objectives. Next slide, please.

In terms of closing, and this is my final slide, I want to

highlight that one of these very significant

initiatives of ISO/TC 207 is around

youth leadership, and it helps bridge the gap between young

professionals and the work of international standards.

We also have the developing country engagement strategy, which I

highlighted before, and I encourage everyone to take a look at the work of

ISO TC on its website. So, as I close, special

thanks to ISO Standards Council of Canada for the twin arrangement

as well as BSI for hosting the workshop. And thank you, Katie.

So back to you.

Fantastic, Nadita, and thanks to you for such a comprehensive

presentation. That was fantastic.

Building on that, we'll now explore how the ISO 14000

family connects with other standards, particularly in areas like natural

capital and wider environmental decision-making.

So we have our final two speakers for the webinar before we hit our Q&A

section. Ece Ozdemiroglu, Chair of BSI Technical

Subcommittee SES 18, Assessing and Valuing Natural Capital,

and CEO of Ftec, and Stephanie Heim, Project Lead of

ISO 14054:2025,

member of SES 18, and CEO of Little Blue

Research Limited. Great to have you both, and I'll hand over

to you, Stephanie. Thanks a lot.

Actually, to Ece first.

Thank you, Katie. And thank you for the opportunity.

We are

as 14 quarters of

14054, very happy to be in the 14000 family.

As Susan Taylor Martin said at the beginning, the environmental management

is the responsibility of the whole organization, not just the

environment, health, and safety, sustainability, or regulations

department. And the whole organization needs to get to grips with a

lot of complex information about its

activities, its impacts, dependencies on nature.

And as the fundamental overarching standard,

14001 is relevant to all

organizations and all impacts and dependencies for that

reason.

It offers a holistic look to organizations.

It can produce information and data that can be used in

different contexts. And it, most importantly,

including for the two standards that we're going to highlight,

it creates a discipline of linking an organization's

activities, products, services to its

environmental conditions, aspects, impacts, and dependencies.

Terminology may differ because we're dealing with different types of

impacts and very complex natural environment, but

principles are common. And it's great to be able to

demonstrate these with the two examples that Nadita Ramachandra

already mentioned. In the next slide, you'll see

14054, the one that we worked on,

which aims to--

I think we skipped one.

Thank you.

The 14054 aims to prepare natural

capital accounts for all sorts of organizations in

all sorts of sectors, and also should the

organization wishes to include the impacts and dependencies

of its value chain too.

The standard helps organizations to bring together

environmental, financial, socioeconomic information

from the organization's own collection and also from the literature,

and presents it in a financial

format similar to financial accounting.ISO

17298 focuses

on biodiversity, its conservation, ecological

restoration, and sustainable use of resources

into the business, social, and environmental strategies

and practices of an organization.

Its focus on biodiversity impacts and dependencies, risks and

opportunities also help define, implement, and

monitor action plans for organizations.

Both use the information 14001 helps

collect, and both can be applied at all organization

sectors and all scales. And Stephanie is going to give

some more detail on each in the next couple of slides.

So if we could just move to the next slide, please. Thank you, Ece.

And thinking

about that again, I think we've skipped forward a slide, so can we go

back one?

Thank you very much. To the commonalities between

ISO standards. So if we think of our two example

standards and also 14001, there

are some key underpinning commonalities.

To start with, aligning the key definitions across the

standards. As Ece mentioned, some of those can be tweaked

based on

the audience that a standard is particularly trying to engage with.

But the underpinning definitions are aligned.

In addition, those example standards also

talk about their relationship with ISO

14001, but also allow

to be implemented as a standalone

topic. They both provide more detail about

specific topics,

in this case, natural capital and biodiversity.

And coming back to something mentioned by a few presenters at the

top of this webinar, that life cycle

perspective, it runs through both of these standards

and as a result, really helps

with things like TNFD, Taskforce for

Nature-related Financial Disclosure

recommendation implementation.

So if we go to the next slide, please.

What I've done is

just taken out three examples of

the sort of complementarity between

this standard, natural capital accounting for organizations,

and 14001. And here we're looking at the

first point that the EMS is often

identified as a source for the data

that 14054 relies on, and that's

particularly in relation to environmental aspects because of the

organization's activities, products or services which

are captured within that EMS. And we need

those. If we're implementing 14054, that's

information that's needed to go on to produce natural

capital accounts. There's also an underpinning aim

here within 14054 which is

helping companies integrate environmental considerations

into their processes and business decisions.

And that aim aligns completely with that of

14001. So if we go to the next

slide, please.

Oh, I think we've skipped over another one.

Could we go back to ISO

17298, please?

Thank you very much. So if we look at this standard on

biodiversity, here we're seeing the link

between the ISO 14001 and

the requirements for environmental policy, and

this particular standard on biodiversity really

looks at where biodiversity actions can be

added or integrated into that environmental

policy. So upping that granular detail on

this particular topic. It also specifies

monitoring and measurement and analysis and evaluation of

biodiversity, which again, would be captured in our

environmental management system.

I'm going to then ask us to go to the last slide

and hand back to you, Ece.

Yes, and in the interest of time,

I just want to summarize this slide in a couple of sentences.

Why do we want to use any of these standards and why do we want to use them in

combination with each other is to ensure that our

environmental and financial management are

efficient and effective.

We are increasingly seeing nature as a financial issue,

financial risk issue.

And we can use these standards to support those

discussions, support the decisions with the information

collected and analytical discipline the standards introduce,

and ensure that the information collected is relevant and

useful for decision making. You can see on the slide

that within the 14001 overarching system,

with the focus of 17298 on

biodiversity and 1454 on pulling it all together

in an accounting format,

we are seeing already increasing examples of doing just that,

answering for our clients the so what question.

We know our environmental impacts and dependencies.

What do we do with that information?

And godspeed, as they say to us

all.

Absolutely brilliant. Thank you so much, and thanks for wrapping up your

presentation very nicely in a nice little bow there, Ece. That was fantastic.

Thank you to all of our speakers. Actually, I'll invite all of them to come back on

camera right now as we move into our Q&A.

We do have under 10 minutes of the webinar to go,

and I'm very aware that we've collated a lot of questions, so we've tried to

categorize these by the most common ones that we've seen filter through,

and we'll try and get through as many as we can in the next few minutes.

Andrew, the first question I'll throw to you, this was quite

common,

hence I'm bringing it forward front and center.

Will organizations need to change their EMS?

If you could speak to that, that would be fantastic.

Yeah. Thank you, and thank you for the question.

From my perspective, I think organizations will

need to consider

the revision issues that we've raised during this webinar.

As

Susan Taylor Martin said, the Chief Executive of

BSI, it's taken us 30 years to get to where we are

with ISO 14001:2026,

so

it's more of a evolution rather than a revolution.

However, many organizations will need to take into

account their own individual circumstances.

For many, I think they will make a smooth and

quick transition between the 2015 and

the 2026 edition. But for others,

I think

to give them confidence about that smooth transition, it would

be prudent to carry out a gap analysis between the

requirements from

14001:2026 and their

current environmental management system.

And that will give them the confidence to know where they meet those

new requirements, and if there are some areas where they need

to backfill in

elements of their management system, then they'll be able to

manage that more effectively, and that will give them that

smooth transition that I guess we all wish for

users of 14001.

Excellent. Great points and great advice for organizations out there.

That was fantastic. The next sort of most common themed question

I'll pose to you, Howard. Will existing ISO

14001:2015 certificates remain valid

after ISO 14001:2026 is published?

Thanks, Katie. There's a nice, neat, short answer to that.

Yes.

But I can expand on that.

Yeah. All organizations are going to be

at some

partway through their existing certification cycle, so

indeed, some organizations may have only been certified to 2015,

what, six months ago? Within the last 12 months.

Equally, there could be those that are due for recertification in 12

months, 18 months in the future. So we're all in different places.

Technically, the

actual transition period is likely, I think we're still waiting for

absolute confirmation from Global ACI,

but we expect that to be three years as a typical kind of

transition period. So let's say an organization certified last

week, they've got three years,

that's how long. But I think the in short

message will be to speak to your certification body,

and discuss with them

the speed at which you want to transition,

because I think some of the certification bodies may

be able to offer a quick,

single audit from a certification point of view and recert.

Or the other probably more progressive approach you might

say, will be to actually include the new requirements

in existing certification activity through surveillance visits,

and then you'll be certified to the new standard

at

your next

certification.

Fantastic. Excellent. I'm going to be brave and squeeze in one more question

for you, Amarjit, if you can fit in your response, hopefully in 30 to 45

seconds. How does ISO

14001:2026 address climate change, biodiversity, and

resource availability? We heard a little bit about this in the webinar, but maybe

just a quick reaction from you in answering that question.

Well, this is not something new. 14001 has been

established to allow organizations to

identify and address significant environmental impacts.

And I would argue climate change, biodiversity impacts, and

all that I've mentioned early on could be significant environmental

impacts. So it's not anything new, it's just that now you would see

these words appearing explicitly in the clause

on context. So the good news is that by

making it more explicit, organizations would be almost

forced to think about these issues

and take them into account within the larger landscape,

as what I had explained earlier on, on all the pressures and stakeholder

expectations out there. And I think there's enough push factor for

organizations to think about this more seriously and address this through

their EMSs. And I'm very positive, and I'm very happy with the

outcome of the standard, and I can see that it will definitely help

organizations address these current and future issues.

Absolutely. Fantastic, and thank you for the brief answer.

That is all the time that we have for questions.

Thank you to all of our speakers today for your comprehensive and very detailed

presentations. As we said, this session is being recorded, so you will receive a

copy. And it is now time to move to our closing remarks.

So I'll first hand over to Vanessa McCorkadale from

BSI to take us out of this webinar. Vanessa, over to you.

Thank you so much, Katie, and thank you to everyone who's joined us today.

It's been a fantastic discussion and a great opportunity to reflect

the continued importance of ISO 14001 and the

value that this new edition will bring as well.

So what we've heard today, just in summary, is some examples from Julie

and James, in that 14001 reinforces something

fundamental, that environmental management is no longer a

standalone function within organizations.

It's become integral to how organizations

operate, make decisions, and create long-term value for

themselves and others. We also heard from Howard that

2026 edition builds on an already strong and

widely adopted foundation. We heard from Amarjit and

Andrew that it makes that the standard is clearer, more accessible,

and better aligned with today's environmental priorities.

Highlighted also by Nadita, Steph, and Ece, it sits

within a broader ecosystem of standards

that together help organizations take a broader, more

holistic, and structured approach to environmental

sustainability. So I'll finish with saying that at BSI,

we are so proud to support the development and application of all of these

standards you've heard today.

As the climate crisis and biodiversity loss, extreme weather events

continue, we know it's imperative that we all continue to act together

and affect these changes that allow everyone living now, as well as

those in the future, to thrive. Global commitments like the London

Declaration and standards like ISO 14001 play

a vital role to bring us all along together to tackle these

challenges, and we're so proud to work with ISO and experts

around the world. Thank you again. I'll hand over to Katie. Thanks.

Brilliant. Thank you so much, Vanessa.

Again, thank you to all of our speakers today and everyone who's joined us for

this webinar. We really hope that this session has given you a very clear

understanding of the new edition of ISO 14001, as

well as practical insight into how it can be applied.

If you would like more information on ISO 14001, you can head to

the website of the ISO member in your country, which is

BSI if you're in the UK, or head to

iso.org. Thank you again for your time.

We look forward to continuing to engage with you, and we wish you a great

rest of the day. Bye for now.