Haymarket Media, part of the Haymarket global media organization has renewed its ISO 14001 sustainability certification through 2025 for its New York City offices through Edenark Group.
The ISO 14001 is the world’s premier environmental sustainability certification and Edenark Group’s certification program allows SMEs (small to mid-sized enterprises) to attain the world’s most popular environmental certification standard via a program designed specifically for them.
Edenark Group also helps clients pursue carbon neutrality and ESG compliance, using the ISO 14001 as a foundation for long-term compliance. The program helps organizations define how they interact internally, externally and with the environment, and focuses on its continual improvement in these areas.
“As a business we recognize our broader responsibility to society and this is displayed through Haymarket’s Impact initiative focused on the UN SDGs of Climate Action, Gender Equality, Quality Education and Partnerships. As a specialist media company, we actively engage our audiences in these topics through our content and in the past year since launching Impact, Haymarket brands globally received more than 2.5 million views to its content covering one or more of the UN SDGs. Renewing the ISO 14001 is a sign the US business of Haymarket is continuing its commitment to sustainability,” said John Crewe, Data Protection Officer, Haymarket Media, Inc.
“In parallel, Haymarket has completed an extensive, third-party assessment to measure its Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions and is engaging suppliers to raise the commitment to sustainability practices and emissions reduction. Not only do we want to do the right thing for the environment in our own offices, we also want to lead by example for other organizations everywhere.”
The certification incorporates energy/waste/water, employee health and performance enhancement, community involvement, procurement and suppliers, compliance and regulations, emergency/security, and stakeholder engagement. Benefits include creating a culture of continual improvement, stakeholder engagement, lower costs, higher revenues and profits, improved employee performance, and doing the right thing for the environment and current and future generations.
“When an organization pursues, attains, then renews, the Edenark Group ISO 14001 sustainability certification, they are setting a higher bar for their organization and sending a signal to all those around them,” said David Goodman, CEO of Edenark Group. “They are agreeing to adhere to the world’s gold standard for sustainability certification; are choosing to be a leader and part of the solution; and are joining an elite community of over 300,000 organizations, in over 150 countries, that have committed to continually improving in every way.”