A revised ISO 14033:2019 Environmental management -- Quantitative environmental information -- Guidelines and examples has been issued.
The standard gives guidelines for the systematic and methodical acquisition and review of quantitative environmental information and data about systems. It supports the application of standards and reports on environmental management.
It gives guidelines for organizations on the general principles, policies, strategies and activities necessary to obtain quantitative environmental information for internal and/or external purposes. It can be used to establish inventory routines and support decision making related to environmental policies and strategies, aimed in particular at comparing quantitative environmental information.
Issues related to defining, collecting, processing, interpreting and presenting quantitative environmental information are also addressed. There are guidelines on how to establish accuracy, verifiability and reliability for the intended use.pro Pen and well-established approaches for the preparation of information are used.
The standard may be used by all organizations, regardless of their size, type, location, structure, activities, products, level of development and whether or not they have an environmental management system in place.
The main changes compared with the previous edition are as follows:
- definitions have been added and principles have been modified;
- the framework has been elaborated and new examples of general application have been added;
- extended explanations of data sources and categories of data have been added;
- new topics in the ISO 14000 family of standards, such as financial applications, have been added;
- the relationship between quantitative environmental information and industrial digitalization has been added; and
- the relationship between systems analytical environmental data and metrological aspects of acquiring data has been added.