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 Homestar v5. Clear selection
Declare
Where it earns points or counts, rating tool by rating tool. About Declare
Credit names, credential names and conditions are in each rating tool's or policy's own words, shown where its publisher's terms allow.
Homestar v5Rating tool
EN3 Sustainable Materials, means of compliance 'Declare'
- Status
- Accepted
- Named as
- Declare
- Edition named
- Not stated by the tool
- Level
- 0.25 · points per material category
- On what basis
- material category with at least 50% “compliant” (Homestar’s word) content
- Products
- not stated by the tool
- Source
- Homestar v5 · EN3 · EN3 p. 11
EPD Australasia
Where it earns points or counts, rating tool by rating tool. About EPD Australasia
Credit names, credential names and conditions are in each rating tool's or policy's own words, shown where its publisher's terms allow.
Homestar v5Rating tool
EN2 Embodied Carbon, Credit Criteria, definition of verified embodied carbon data
- Status
- Accepted with conditions
- Named as
- EPD Australasia
- Edition named
- Not stated by the tool
- Products
- not stated by the tool
- Scope
- Context is exemptions for individual assemblies at 6 and 7 Homestar where data that Homestar calls “verified” is not available.
- Conditions
- Not shown under New Zealand Green Building Council's terms
- How sure
- Klar Cite’s reading is uncertain here; check the tool’s page (p. EN2 p. 1).
- Source
- Homestar v5 · EN2 · EN2 p. 1
EN3 Sustainable Materials, EPD industry-wide; Additional Guidance on EPDs
- Status
- Accepted as an ISO 14025 Type III EPD programme (own statement)
- Named as
- EPD Australasia
- Edition named
- Not stated by the tool
- Level
- 0.75 point · points per material category
- On what basis
- industry-wide EPD format
- Products
- not stated by the tool
- The rule
- Not shown under New Zealand Green Building Council's terms
- Source
- Homestar v5 · EN3 · EN3 p. 10, 12
EN3 Sustainable Materials, EPD product-specific; Additional Guidance on EPDs
- Status
- Accepted as an ISO 14025 Type III EPD programme (own statement)
- Named as
- EPD Australasia
- Edition named
- Not stated by the tool
- Level
- 1.25 points · points per material category
- On what basis
- product-specific EPD format
- Products
- not stated by the tool
- The rule
- product-specific EPD that Homestar calls “third-party verified”
- independently audited
- cradle-to-gate scope as a minimum
- Source
- Homestar v5 · EN3 · EN3 p. 10, 12