Here’s an unusual, but very timely, application of GS1 standards:

The European Supply Chain Institute (ESCI) has launched the Supply Chain Carbon Council, which is focused on how radio frequency identification and Electronic Product Code (EPC) technologies, as well as supporting data-management technologies, can be used to help companies track and manage carbon emissions throughout their supply chains… To help it achieve its mission, the council is collaborating with GS1…

The brief story about this initiative is here, courtesy of RFID News Roundup. It’s a timely subject, of course, and there is in fact a brief mention in it about carbon emission standards that are ‘taking shape’ in the U.S. For more on that, here is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Cap and Trade web site.

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