Lawrence leads ISO push for carbon impact standard

Environmental expert, Phillip Lawrence, joins ISO’s new working group (WG11), which will be charged with formulating an international standard for measuring the environmental impact of printed matter.

This move hopes to remove the confusion associated with the various carbon measurement models available and aims to create a clear guideline for printing companies wishing to measure their carbon output.

Lawrence (pictured), who was nominated to the new Working Group by Australia’s ISO TC 130 committee, believes that there is much benefit to the industry in having such a standard. “Although it is good to see firms take this activity on-board, the individual calculators do not give stakeholders of the industry the real opportunity to compare carbon output from firm to firm in a standard way,” he said.

Lawrence previously represented the Australian TC 130 committee as a member of the carbon foot-printing Task Force and has again been enlisted to participate with the new working group.

Australian TC 130 chairman, Luke Wooldridge, congratulated Lawrence on the achievement. “The Australian TC 130 committee is once again delighted that Phillip will represent the Australian Industry by contributing to the framework of what will be an important new international standard,” he said.