About Us
The SPA is a nonprofit organization that brings together stakeholders representing various interests who are working to ensure a safe, healthy, resilient, and intelligently interconnected planet for the benefit of current and future generations.
SPA stakeholders include communities. student groups, educational organizations, corporations, governments, international organizations, and all persons interested in a consistent approach to sustainable development.
Mission
To initiate and facilitate research and operate programs for ensuring the effective and transparent implementation of sustainable development initiatives and standards.
Objectives
1. support inclusive representation of all peoples that may be impacted by sustainability standards by funding their participation in national and international meetings where set standards are being developed.
2. Two support the development and delivery of training on the subject matter of sustainability and ensure that it’s available and easily accessible to all people.
3. Support the development and maintenance of competence and qualification criteria for registries and listening of stakeholders that are implementing sustainability initiatives and standards.
Vision
To be the reference organization that provides the confidence to all stakeholders globally who seek to validate the implementation of sustainable development initiatives and standards.
Our mission, vision and objectives will be achieved via the establishment of permanent and ad hoc commitments comprise of SBA members, stakeholders and experts working together with SBA staff in the different technical areas that comprise the sustainable development subject matter
For information on how you can get involved to support the SPA’s mission, please contact us.
Research Areas
The SPA research and scope of program activities are aligned with the United Nations 2030 agenda for sustainable Development. The table below lists the UN defined areas of critical importance and the corresponding research and program activities that the SPCA is chartered to engage in.
People
Related UN Declaration
“We are determined to protect the planet from degradation, including through sustainable consumption and production, sustainably managing its natural resources, and taking urgent action on climate change so that it can support the needs of the present and future generations.”
Chartered SPA Research Areas
ISO 14001 – Environmental management
ISO 50001 – Energy Management
ISO 46001 – Water efficiency management.
ISO/CD TS 24541 – Guidelines for monitoring drinking water quality (being developed).
Planet
Related UN Declaration
“We are determined to end poverty and hunger in all their forms and dimensions and to ensure that all human beings can fulfill their potential indignity and equally and in a healthy environment.”
Chartered SPA Research Areas
ISO 37001 – Sustainable development in Communities
ISO 21001 Management systems for educational organizations.
Prosperity
Related UN Declaration
“We are determined to ensure that all human beings can enjoy prosperous and fulfilling lives and that economic, social, and technological progress occurs in harmony with nature.”
Chartered SPA Research Areas
ISO 45001 – Occupational Health and Safety Management
ISO/DIS 22739 – Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology
Peace
Related UN Declaration
“We are determined to foster peaceful, just, and inclusive societies which are free from fear and violence. There can be no sustainable development without peace and no peace without sustainable development.”
Chartered SPA Research Areas
ISO 18788 Management system for private security operations.
Partnership
Related UN Declaration
“We are determined to mobilize the means required to implement this Agenda through a revitalised Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, based on a spirit of strengthened global solidarity, focussed in particular on the needs of the poorest and most vulnerable and with the participation of all countries, all stakeholders and all people.”
Chartered SPA Research Areas
ISO 44001:2017 – Collaborative Business Relationships.
If you are interested in supporting the any of the above SPA research area via sponsorship or via your participation in pertinente SPA committees, please contact us.
Programs
Smart Communities Initiative
SPA is working with a variety of stakeholders to launch and maintain the International Registry of Certified Cities and Communities, IRCCC.
This registry will serve as a public reference for the various stakeholders that are collaborating to ensure transparency and credible certification of communities to ISO 37001.
The IRCCC framework includes the following stakeholders:
1. Communities and their Sustainable Development Project leaders
2. Project management organizations that may be hired by communities to support their sustainable development, implementation and related.Activities. Monitoring.
3. Organizations that provide education/training services pertaining to sustainable development for communities.
4. Certification Bodies that operate according to ISO 17021 who may be engaging in the audit and certification of communities to ISO 37001.
5. Accreditation Bodies that operate according to ISO 17011 who may provide oversight to Certification Bodies.
6. Sponsors (individuals and/or organizations) of the activities of any of the above mentioned stakeholders.
The registry will be accessible via the following web address irccc.org.
To support the initiative or for the requirement to be listed in the registry, please visit irccc.org.
Smart Schools Initiative
SPA is working with a variety of stakeholders to launch and maintain International Registry of Certified Educational Organizations (IRCEO)
This registry will serve as a public reference of the various stakeholders that are collaborating to ensure transparent and credible certification of Educational Organizations to ISO 21001.
The IRCEO framework includes the following stakeholders:
1. Educational organizations and their quality sustainable developments Project leaders.
2. Project management organizations that may be hired by schools to support their Quality Sustainability Management System implementation and monitoring of related activities.
3. Organizations that provide training services pertaining to ISO 21001.
4. Certification Bodies that operate according to ISO 17,021 who may be engaging in the audit and certification of education organizations to ISO 21001.
5. Accreditation Bodies that operate according to ISO 17011 who may provide oversight to certification bodies.
6. Sponsors (individuals and/or organizations) of the activities of the above-mentioned stakeholders.
The registry will be accessible via the following web address irceo.org.
To support the initiative or for the requirement to be listed in the registry, please visit irceo.org.
Partnerships
The SPA has defined A partnership program to enable engagement and collaboration with other organizations that can help promote the SPA mission and where the SPA can help advance its mission.
These partnerships will be via membership and or reciprocal participation in each other activities or via the creation of SPA chapters with the universities and interested communities.
For more information regarding partnerships, please contact us
Sponsors
cmart Communities Initiative
SPA is working with a variety of stakeholders to launch and maintain the International Registry of Certified Cities and Communities, IRCCC.
This registry will serve as a public reference for the various stakeholders that are collaborating to ensure transparency and credible certification of communities to ISO 37001.
The IRCCC framework includes the following stakeholders:
1. Communities and their Sustainable Development Project leaders
2. Project management organizations that may be hired by communities to support their sustainable development, implementation and related.Activities. Monitoring.
3. Organizations that provide education/training services pertaining to sustainable development for communities.
4. Certification Bodies that operate according to ISO 17021 who may be engaging in the audit and certification of communities to ISO 37001.
5. Accreditation Bodies that operate according to ISO 17011 who may provide oversight to Certification Bodies.
6. Sponsors (individuals and/or organizations) of the activities of any of the above mentioned stakeholders.
The registry will be accessible via the following web address irccc.org.
To support the initiative or for the requirement to be listed in the registry, please visit irccc.org/membership.
Contact us
Smart Planet Association
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