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EarthCheck Certified
Green Building Council of Australia
ISO 9001 – Quality Management System
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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
- Visit Website
- Employees
- 25 - 100
- Industry
- Environmental Services
- Country
- Australia
- Founded
- 2010
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.
