Nicole Muñoz is the Vice President of SCS’s Environmental Certification Services division. In this role, she supervises environmental and sustainability performance spanning a broad range of industries, from green building, textile & apparel, electronics, and jewelry. She is a regular participant in technical working groups for the maintenance and development of product sustainability standards and indoor air quality standards, such as Sustainable Apparel Coalition Higg Index, Textile Exchange Global Recycle Standard, ANSI/BIFMA e.3 Furniture Sustainability Standard, NSF/ULe 440 Health Based Indoor Air Quality Standard and ANSI/BIFMA M7.1/X7.1-2011 Furniture Emissions Standard and Health Product Declaration Open Standard.
Before joining the company, Nicole conducted environmental testing and analysis as an analytical chemist for environmental testing and semi-conductors industries, and served as an environmental health regulator for Monterey County Public Health Department in California. During her tenure at SCS, Nicole has been promoted into roles of increasing technical and managerial responsibility, including auditing, standards development and program development, and divisional managing director. She has extensive international and domestic auditing experience, and has been instrumental in developing sustainability metrics for material use, energy and atmosphere impacts, human and ecosystem health, and corporate social responsibility.
- B.S. Biological Sciences, Environmental Toxicology (University of California, Riverside)
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Services
- Apparel and Textiles
- Climate Change
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Corporate Sustainability
- Advanced Technical Services
- Amazon Climate Pledge Friendly
- Amazon Compact by Design
- Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) Support
- Carbon Footprint Calculation
- Carbon Neutral Certification
- Carbon Offset Verification
- CBAM for Iron and Steel Imports
- Green Retail Consulting
- Greenhouse Gas Verification
- ISCC EU Certification
- ISCC PLUS Certification
- Life Cycle Assessment
- REPLENISH™ Verification for Water Stewardship Actions
- Sustainability Report Assurance
- Verra Plastic Waste Reduction Standard
- Water Advisory Services
- Water Stewardship Validation
- WAVE: Corporate Water Stewardship Verified
- Zero Waste Events Certification
- Zero Waste Facility Certification
- Zero Waste Project Certification
- Food Consumer Labels
- Food Safety
- Fuels and Transportation
- Green Building
- Green Building
- Greener Product Claims
- Greener Product Claims
- Jewelry, Metals and Mining
- Responsibly Sourced
- Supply Chain Management
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Sustainable Fisheries and Seafood
- Sustainable Forestry
- Water Stewardship