Development and Problems: A Survey of ISO14000 Implementation

Abstract

"ISO14000 is created by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), with the purpose of setting up the environmental management system that is beneficial to keeping sustainable development of the economy, improving the quality of the ecological environment and clearing up the non-tariff trade barriers. Since China began implementing ISO14000 in 1996, it has achieved big progress, but there are still some problems. The analysis in this paper is based on the survey of the corporations and other organizations ISO14000 certified and non-certified in Tianjin, summing up the good experiences of the ISO14000 implementation and putting forward the problems existed in Tianjin and in China."