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Global GreenTag certifications help products with sustainability claims succeed worldwide

Global GreenTag International do this by offering global certification and transparency reporting services to manufacturers who require independent, advanced and scientifically based product assessment programs. Many of which are also recognised by the world's leading building rating tools.  GreenTag assesses and rates products across a range of criteria, including environmental and human health, supply chain, ethics, circularity and nature positive design.  

WHO WE ARE?
Global GreenTag International Pty Ltd comprises a team, passionate about helping to mainstream sustainability. The team includes specialists from disciplines in materials, science, architecture, engineering and environmental research and management, and auditing, who operate the Global GreenTagCertTM certification Program under license. The program is a multi-award winning third party, multi-criteria, consensus based and externally verified Type 1 Ecolabelling Program and Certification Mark that is registered in Australia, the USA and Canada. 

TRANSPARENCY DECLARATION PROGRAMS
To help accelerate sustainability in the manufacturing industries, provide product information that is substantiated, which makes it easier for professional product buyers and consumers to be more informed when they make product buying decisions as well as cut through greenwashing in the market, GreenTag is committed to develop and operate robust transparency reporting programs that are also subject to external expert peer review and yearly audits:

-  Environmental Product Declarations - providing summary Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) reports to the global EN 15804 Standard - an EPD Program that is also recognised by the ECO Platform and as an ECO EPD program operator. 

GreenTag also have a number of world-first and unique transparency reports including:

- A product level Modern Slavery Declaration (MSD) that reports on all 10 criteria required in Australian and UK Modern Slavery legislations, enabling manufacturers to respond with verified supply chain information to large companies that require product-level modern slavery reporting;

- A Product Health Declaration (PHD) an ingredient hazard transparency report with HealthRATE 'healthiness in use' ratings and 'Asthma and Allergy Sensitive' assessment that demonstrates and clearly explains any health or ecological risks attached to ingredients, for workers and for end users, and how that risk shifts between the various use stages to simplify healthy product assessment for all product users and minimizing risks also for product specifiers;

- An EPD Benefit Addendums that for the first time captures and measures benefits created by net-nature positive, circular and bio-based products by measuring avoided impacts on nature, biodiversity, pollution and resources thereby minimizing any biodiversity or carbon-offsetting needed to create nature positive outcomes after unavoidable impacts are minimized and accounted for and,

-  A NaturePositive+Declaration that is provided under the Global GreenTag NaturePositive+ Standard, the first of its kind in the world, which transparently reports product characteristics and metrics across 10 sustainability criteria, including human and ecotoxicity, biodiversity, climate, water, life cycle impacts, life cycle benefits, social and indigenous benefit, modern slavery and innovation. 

There are currently well over 20,000 Global GreenTag certified products that appear on 400+ certificates for over 330 companies from factories in 22+ countries being used in buildings, homes and offices throughout the world.

GreenTag also operates a Manufacturer Claim Verifications (McV) program that includes verification of issues like 'Post Consumer Recycled Content', 'Australian Made', 'Biodegradable', 'Compostable', 'Bio-based Content' and other claims so users can trust claims made through manufacturer marketing statements.

Read more here: https://www.globalgreentag.com/get-certified/

About Global GreenTag

Status

Website
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Employees
25 - 100

Industry
Environmental Services

Country
Australia

Founded
2010

Global GreenTag Services

Global GreenTag offers comprehensive certification services for a range of sustainability, health, ethical supply chain, circular economy and manufacturer claim verifications including environmental product declarations, product health declarations, product specific modern slavery compliance and NaturePositive+ certification.

GreenTag ensures your products meet local and international green building, fitout and procurement standards providing transparency, access to projects using the rating tools and bolstering your brand's credibility in markets focused on greener design, specification and purchasing.

Serviceable Locations: Australia, United States, Canada

Product Supply Chain & Circularity

Environmental Product Declaration

Environmental Certifications

Certification Provider

Social Responsibility

Modern Slavery & Human Rights

Global GreenTag Sustainability Actions

Assisting More Sustainable, Healthy & Ethical Purchasing

Global GreenTag operates on several levels towards environmental actions: 1. We facilitate professionals' action within the procurement and design sectors towards purchasing and specifying ecologically, health and ethical supply chain preferred products; 2. We help Consumers cut through the marketing hype, eliminating 'greenwash' and provide purchasing decision-assisting certification TAGs that appear on-shelf product labels in stores like Bunnings; 3. We partner and collaborate with other website and product portals like Sustainability Tracker & Sustainable Choice, Archify, Loud Library, Evitat Australia, Green Building Council of Australia, Products Aware and others to maximise the ease and efficiency of finding certified products by distributing certification and reporting information freely to portals where people are already searching.

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Autex NZ Delivers First NaturePositive+ Declaration Product for Construction Industry

Global GreenTag International has supported delivery of the first construction related product to receive certification under the Global GreenTag International NaturePositive+ Standard™. The acoustic thermal and acoustic panel product made by Autex Industries New Zealand – Embrace™ Wool Felt - underwent the rigorous and holistic, GreenTag NaturePositive+ Declaration™ assessment process, successfully being certified at a PLATINUM level NaturePositive+ Rating of 160 percent. The key results from the investigation found that the product: ✔ Uses more than 99.5% of renewable resources with Autex giving priority focus to the protection of biodiversity during manufacture. ✔ Benefits the environment with minimal negative environmental impacts and of equal importance, delivers net positive benefits to the environment in its own right. ✔ Also, the product achieves high levels of product health that benefit human health and wellbeing along the product's supply chains, and for the lifecycle of the product to the end of its life, and beyond. The GreenTag NaturePositive+ Standard and NaturePositive+ Declaration program marks a new benchmark in the certification sector for manufacturing in the built environment and other industries. It is a first of its kind in the world, marking also a new standard for manufacturing. It centers processes on nature repair, enabling progressive and conscientious product manufacturers like Autex to improve their value chain by not just using carbon measurements as a focus to counter climate change, but to use biodiversity as the primary focus of achieving carbon drawdown. Autex's Embrace Stretch Wool product achieved points across the ten assessment indicators used by the NaturePositive+ program to measure and uncover its profile and prominence as a NaturePositive+ made product, including Innovative product design that is Nature Positive forward in providing verified outcomes for Circular Economy projects for the construction industry and majority use of renewable resources (>99.5%). The NaturePositive+ Declaration (NP+D) program in its fullness is a deep dive into manufacturing processes. This case exemplifies athe commitment of a manufacturers to open the data of its product completely for a robust sequence of assessments. The process enabled GreenTag not only to measure the real-world Life Cycle Assessed (LCA) impacts of the product but importantly, it also allowed everybody to see how far the product had come by sending it through a unique Life Cycle Benefits Analysis (LCBA) as well, which is provided by The Evah Institute, Associates of GreenTag of many years. LCBA allows us to see what a product has achieved in terms of how it benefits people, nature and resources. Tracking benefits and impacts is so important for the future of manufacturing to track and chart progress toward nature-repair because benefits are not being captured by any other system currently. NP+Ds give manufacturers an assessment and certification pathway to scientifically investigate and holistically measure their own products' progress and plan for the future. The process ultimately encourages manufacturers to step up and provide products that can be verified as Nature Positive and ready for true Circular Economy and Nature Positive projects that align with both the World Green Building Council's 2025-2027 Strategic Plan and the Green Building Council of Australia's Building with Nature roadmap."

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Global GreenTag Sustainability Commitments

2014

Sustainability Policy

GGTI recognises that some of its activities and services can cause impacts on the environment. To address these impacts and in turn reduce our ecological footprint, Management is committed to: • Implementing assessment, measuring, and reporting processes to identify and explain Applicant products’ potential to create and minimise pollution (including carbon), waste, resource, health and other impacts on the environment and people across the entire life cycle of the products assessed and that can be influenced by them (i.e., Scope 1 and 2 only); • Implementing measures and reporting to identify our organisation’s impacts and quantify our actions to minimise pollution, waste, resource consumption, health, social and other impacts on the environment and workers that GGTI can influence: o Continually improving and broadening the environmental knowledge and expertise of staff, o Continually reducing the environmental and social impact of GGTI’s activities, products and services via activities including renewable energy, green procurement, nature-based carbon offsetting, recycling programs and the like; o Influencing, advancing, and promoting the issues of Sustainability within the consumer, trade, professional and student sectors; o Complying with or exceeding relevant environmental legislation, regulations and other requirements that relate to GGTI’s operations; o Implementing, maintaining, and continually improving the Quality Management System including sustainability and staff engagement indicators; o Identifying the environmental aspects and social impacts of the organisation’s activities, products and services, and manage these to reduce impacts over time; o Coordinating this Sustainability Policy with other organisational policies; o Ensuring compliance with ISO 14024 and ISO 17065 the Global GreenTag Standards and broad Stakeholder Engagement; o Transparency in reporting the outcomes of this policy where confidentiality allows; o Identifying priorities and setting appropriate sustainability objectives and targets especially in relation to those UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that are relevant to GGTI; • Engaging and facilitating Applicants, Staff and Partners to engage in programs to minimise their impacts and ensuring they are compliant with legal practice in their countries. Management reviews its Sustainability objectives on a regular basis to ensure their continuing suitability within the framework of the Quality Management System. The Sustainability elements of the Management System are audited in accordance with established procedures to ensure compliance with AS/NZS ISO 9001:2015. The Sustainability Policy is communicated to and understood by all employees.

2020

Modern Slavery Policy

This Modern Slavery Statement for Global GreenTag International Pty Ltd is a Voluntary Statement pursuant to the Australian Modern Slavery Act 2018. The purpose of this statement is to outline our commitment and clarify our approach to ensuring that Global GreenTag International has robust frameworks and processes in place to minimise the risk of modern slavery in our business operations and supply chain. Possibilities of Modern Slavery occurring in supply chains – issues of ethical labour sourcing and social impacts – have always been a requirement for assessment of products under the Global GreenTag International Product Certification Standard. Global GreenTag International has been actively involved with a number of interest bodies in recent years to bring stronger focus to the problem of Modern Slavery and was one of a core group of companies that pledged support behind the Australian Human Rights Commission’s call for the National Modern Slavery legislation in late 2017. At Global GreenTag International, we recognise that slavery and human trafficking can occur in many forms, as considered in the Act. This can include slavery, servitude, human trafficking, forced marriage, forced labour, debt bondage, child labour, and deceptive recruiting for labour or services. Global GreenTag International is fully committed to operating responsibly and establishing and adhering to the highest ethical standards both from a product Certification Standard and a Company level.