ISO Greenhouse Gas Standards Overview

摘要

While world leaders meet in Copenhagen, Denmark to discuss a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has already developed standards that blend guidance and specific requirements to allow validation and verification bodies to assess the greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction claims of organizations. The GHG assertion process is twofold: the entity making the assertion is responsible for adhering to the requirements of the relevant GHG ISO standard, while the validation or verification body is chargedrnwith completing an objective and impartial assessment of that entity's assertion and documenting that assessment in a validation or verification statement, based on their independent findings. ISO 14064 and ISO 14065 show verifiers how to execute objective assessments and validation or verification statements, and also show organizations how to plan their GHG emission and removal statements to allow third-party validation and verification.