ISO14001 Environmental Management System (EMS) is a part of the organization's entire management system. It is used to formulate and implement its environmental policy and manage its environmental factors, including the organizational structure required to formulate, implement, implement, review and maintain the environmental policy. Plan activities, responsibilities, practices, procedures, processes and resources. ISO14001: 1996 Environmental Management System-Specifications and Guidelines for Use is an international standard officially issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in 1996 and can be used for certification purposes. It is the core of the ISO14000 series of standards. It requires organizations to achieve this by establishing an environmental management system Support the goals of environmental protection, pollution prevention and continuous improvement, and prove the conformity and environmental management level of its environmental management system to the outside world by obtaining the certification of a third-party certification body. Since the ISO14001 environmental management system can bring many benefits such as energy saving and consumption reduction, enhance the competitiveness of enterprises, win customers, and win the trust of the government and the public, it has received a positive response from the majority of enterprises since the date of release and is regarded as entering the international market "Green Pass". At the same time, because the promotion and popularization of ISO14001 can play a macro role in coordinating the relationship between economic development and environmental protection, raising the awareness of environmental protection for the whole people, promoting conservation and promoting technological progress, etc., it has also received more and more attention. In order to make the requirements of the ISO14001 standard clearer and clearer, ISO revised the standard and promulgated the new version of the standard ISO14001:2015 Environmental Management System Requirements and Usage Guidelines on September 15, 2015.

The ISO14001 standard is produced in the context of serious environmental problems (such as: greenhouse effect, destruction of the ozone layer, destruction of biodiversity, deterioration of the ecological environment, marine pollution, etc.) in today's human society, which is the crystallization of environmental management experience in industrial developed countries The basic idea is to guide the organization to establish a self-restraint mechanism for environmental management in accordance with the PDCA model. From the top leadership to each employee, the relationship between their own development and environmental protection is handled in a proactive and conscious manner, and continuous improvement of environmental performance and effective The pollution prevention will eventually realize the benign development of the organization. The standard applies to organizations of any type and size, and applies to various geographic, cultural, and social environments.

In the final analysis, the ISO 14000 series of standards is a set of management standards. It is the crystallization of the environmental management experience of industrially developed countries. When formulating national standards, it also takes into account the situation of different countries, and tries to make the standards generally applicable.