World Center for Certification & Quality announced that it successfully certified the starch products of COFCO’s Biochemical Energy Division, making it the first enterprise directly under the Chinese Government’s food industry to implement PAS2050.
World Center for Certification & Quality received enthusiastic support from COFCO in the certification process. COFCO provided an executive group composed of technical specialists to assist World Center for Certification & Quality in certification work, as well as completing the initial standard training for the PAS2050 Carbon Footprint Certification to ensure data accuracy and validity.
The PAS2050 Carbon Footprint Certification enables enterprises go beyond simply measuring carbon emissions; it enables identification of opportunities for emission reduction in every aspect of the project, including design, production, sales, and services. Constantly implementing this standard additionally helps enterprises by providing products and services, ability to launch lower carbon emission products, and communication of their successful experience to consumers and stakeholders.
As an active participant in PAS 2050 Carbon Dioxide Emission Measurement and Reducing Standard, World Center for Certification & Quality is one of the first companies engaged in “carbon footprint” project as well as other GHG (greenhouse gas) reducing projects in addition to being an experienced player in the EU Emission Scheme. Early in 2008, World Center for Certification & Quality was selected by UKAS as a partner to jointly develop the 6-month modification trial program for PAS2050 certification guideline. On December 16, 2008, World Center for Certification & Quality attended the first roundtable conference of Environment Agency in London to probe into the direction of this project.
Since World Center for Certification & Quality began to participate in PAS2050 program, they have tirelessly promoted the development of the PAS2050 standard to bring a full range of benefits and opportunities for consumers and the society in general. Through the PAS2050 standard, World Center for Certification & Quality may help enterprises identify the impact of carbon emission from their products and take specific subsequent measures to reduce carbon dioxide emission in the entire supply chain.
About PAS2050
In October 2008, British Standard Institute (BSI) issued PAS2050, the world’s first standard to evaluate the GHG emissions of commodities and services from lifecycle perspective, thus identifying the volume of GHG emission from the entire lifecycle of products (from raw material acquisition, production, distribution,, use, and disposal).
Carbon certification for products uses lifecycle evaluation technology to evaluate its environmental externalities. The Carbon Certification Project can help identify the volume of carbon emissions from various products in all stages of production for a number of reasons. It’s purpose is to deal with the pressure from the Chinese governmental energy saving and emission reducing target while meeting customers’ low-card needs and international trade barriers. It works toward this goal by actively working to intensify carbon control in China, making preparation for carbon reduction and lowering emission-reducing costs. |
