ISO 14064 and IS0 14065 : GHG Emissions
Climate change
Heightened concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs)
in the earth's atmosphere are now widely accepted as
being the main cause of climate change and global warming.
ISO 14064 and ISO 14065:2007 provide an internationally
agreed framework for measuring GHG emissions and verifying
claims made about them so that "a tonne of carbon
is always a tonne of carbon". They thus support
programmes to reduce GHG emissions and also emissions
trading programmes.
ISO 14064 comprises three standards covering GHG emission
quantification, monitoring and reporting, and for the
validation and verification of claims made about GHG
emissions.
ISO 14064 was developed as a solution to the problems
posed by the fact that governments, business corporations
and voluntary initiatives were using a number of approaches
to account for organization (and project level) GHG
emissions and removals with no generally accepted validation
or verification protocols.
The complementary standard ISO 14065:2007 provides
requirements for bodies that undertake GHG validation
or verification using ISO 14064 or other relevant standards
or specifications.
The aim of GHG validation or verification bodies is
to give confidence to parties that rely upon a GHG assertion
or claim, for example regulators or investors, that
the bodies providing the declarations are competent
to do so, and have systems in place to manage impartially
and to provide the required level of assurance on a
consistent basis.
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