Publisher: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Bonn and Eschborn, Federal Republic of Germany
COVID-19 Investment Response – Green Recovery component

Author: Center for Energy, Environment and Resources – CENER 21

Certification is a process in which an independent organisation, based on a detailed evaluation, determines whether a company’s product, process or management system meets the standards prescribed in a specific normative document. This document can be an international or national standard, a specification, a legal regulation (such as a rulebook) or a special certification scheme developed by a certification body. Certain standards encourage companies to reshape their business and production practices to reduce their environmental footprint while contributing to sustainable development and are recognised in this guide as “green” standards.

This baseline study is entitled “Trends and requirements of the green transition of SMEs in Metal and Wood processing sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina” Its objective is to analyse the green topic in the two sectors and related value chains from different angles to emphasise the complexity of the greening issue complexity and show that the successful implementation of greening efforts in SMEs and value chains depends on a multitude of different efforts.