Let’s say you’re a Swedish green furniture maker and an architect in Australia want to purchase from you for a green building. You now have to figure out how your green building scheme compares to their standards — and that can be tricky. Getting approval can be a long and complicated process. There is some help available from the Global Ecolabel Network’s Internationally Coordinated Ecolabelling System (Genices). It is a system that has all the countries standards in one place and can act as a third party assessor. In many countries, having the Genices approval will be enough for you to meet their green standards.
Read the full article here Making Sense Of International Certification Schemes.