he ECO certification is the national scheme for ensuring the environmental, socioeconomic, and cultural sustainability of hotels and farmhouses on the Maltese Islands and has been recognised by the Global Sustainable Tourism Council as fully reflecting the GSTC criteria.
The Malta Chamber has within its structures a purposely focused group known as the Energy and Environment Committee whose aim is that of assisting business community with issues related to these two themes.
The Chamber’s committee organises periodical seminars on several themes and represents the organisation in lobbying and consultation efforts at local and EU level on environmental related matters.
For more information on any of the subjects mentioned above SMEs can contact the Chamber’s Policy Unit on (356) 21 233873.
The Circularity Check is a free, online self-evaluation tool for companies, in particular SMEs, that determines a circularity score for a specific product and/or service. In the form of a questionnaire, the tool comprises about 60 questions to check whether the product/service is circular and sustainable, and if so, to what extent. A score is assigned to each question; the higher the score the better.
NetRegs is a website set up to help small businesses in Scotland and Northern Ireland become more environmentally aware. It has been developed by a partnership between the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) in Scotland and the Northern Ireland Enviro
This programme is an SME financial support instrument managed under the KET4CleanProduction initiative of the European Commission.
Micro Grants are offered for transnational cooperation projects between small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and minimum 2 KET technology centres (KET TCs), which aim to integrate key enabling technologies (KET) to solve clean production challenges. Focus is on upgrading production processes.
SUBSPORT is a comprehensive portal offering information on products and technologies for evaluating, reducing or substituting hazardous chemical use.
It is a useful tool for companies wanting to meet requirements under EU REACH legislation, and a valuable resource for authorities, environmental and consumer organisations, and scientific institutions.
The portal includes a databases of cases and stories which serve as inspiration and offer concrete help to companies or organisations.
The SUBSPORT portal includes:
This simple tool calculates water and financial savings that can be achieved by installing waterless urinals in an organisation.
The calcluation is made based on answering three simple questions:
Green Ideas for Tourism is a project that developed an educational tool in a field of sustainable tourism. The tool helps tourism stakeholders keep up to date with the latest developments in the circular economy, blue economy and other cradle-to-cradle, resource efficiency and environmental principles. Modules illustrate how and why these concepts are applied in practice in order to better prepare those studying tourism for the challenges of managing a sustainable business.
The Better Building Partnership, which is a private initiative of British commercial property owners, has released a new office fit-out toolkit for owners and occupiers. The toolkit provides a structured process to retrofit interior fittings, incorporating sustainability and wellbeing principles.
The LCC tools enable life-cycle costing in a procurement process to get the full picture associated with a product, service or works.
LCC shows that the purchase price is only one of several cost parameters connected to purchasing and owning a product. A life-time cost assessment also includes operating costs, including energy, fuel or water usage, maintenance and disposal costs. An LCC calculation may also include the cost of externalities, such as greenhouse gas emissions.
The following MS Excel-based calculators are available: