Ratings & Policy
Find where a product credential earns points or counts, and what each rating tool or policy accepts.
Pick any rating tools or policies and any credentials. The results narrow to what you pick.
Australia and New Zealand
Which credential?
- Aluminium Stewardship Initiative
- BEP PVC
- BES 6001
- Blue Angel
- CARES Sustainable Constructional Steel
- Carpet Institute
- Climate Active
- Concrete Sustainability Council
- Cradle to Cradle Certified
- Declare
- Eco Choice Aotearoa
- EMICODE
- EPD
- EPD Australasia
- EU Ecolabel
- FSC
- GECA
- Global GreenTag
- Global Organic Textile Standard
- Global Responsible Textile Standard
- Green Seal
- Health Product Declaration
- International EPD System
- Living Product Challenge
- Nordic Swan
- PEFC
- Product Carbon Footprint
- Responsible Steel
- Responsible Wood
- SCS Standards
- Steel Sustainability Australia
- Sustainable Forestry Initiative
- UL GREENGUARD
- AFRDI Green Tick
- CDPH Standard Method
- CEN
- ISO
- LEVEL
- NaturePlus (GreenCollar)
- PACT
2 credentials, in Australian Government ESP Policy. Clear selection
Climate Active
Where it earns points or counts, rating tool by rating tool. About Climate Active
Credit names, credential names and conditions are in each rating tool's or policy's own words, shown where its publisher's terms allow.
Australian Government ESP PolicyProcurement policy
Evaluation guidance – Products, Table 1 (row 'Climate Active Carbon Neutral')
- Status
- Accepted with conditions
- Named as
- Carbon Neutral (printed as 'Climate Active Carbon Neutral')
- Edition named
- Not stated by the tool
- On what basis
- listed as an example in Table 1
- Products
- All
- Scope
- Table 1 gives examples and is not exhaustive. Focus area printed: Climate only.
- Conditions
- Climate Active Carbon Neutral certification
- certification held for the product
- Source
- Australian Government ESP Policy · p. 9
Green Seal
Where it earns points or counts, rating tool by rating tool. About Green Seal
Credit names, credential names and conditions are in each rating tool's or policy's own words, shown where its publisher's terms allow.
Australian Government ESP PolicyProcurement policy
SESP Template – Products, 'Products have a lower environmental footprint'; Evaluation guidance – Products, 'Evidence of product sustainability'
- Status
- Accepted as an ISO 14024 Type I ecolabel (own statement)
- Named as
- Green Seal
- Edition named
- Not stated by the tool
- Products
- FFE, ICT Goods, Textiles
- The rule
- third-party “verified” (the ESP Policy’s word)
- ecolabel to ISO 14024
- Source
- Australian Government ESP Policy · SESP Template (unpaginated); Evaluation guidance p. 5