The Lighting Council Australia (LCA) sent its environment and public affairs manager, Will Houtsma, to the latest round of International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) meetings within the technical committee for lighting (TC34) in early November 2023.

Will represented Australia on the global stage amongst international experts in lighting originating from countries including the USA, the UK, Germany, Italy, Austria, the Netherlands, China, South Korea and New Zealand.

The first of these meetings was Working Group 24 (WG24): Environmental Aspects of Lighting Products and Systems. The LCA representative is co-convenor of this group and chaired the latest meeting that focused on the development of a new technical report.

Standards and publications from across the world are to be collected and analysed for their inclusion in this report which will ultimately lead to a new international environment standard for lighting.

The LCA was present for the 2023 annual plenary meeting of TC34: Lighting and the latest meeting of the advisory group that reports directly to TC34, AG1.