IWA 42:2022, Net zero guidelines
IWA 42:2022 provides guiding principles and recommendations to enable a common, global approach to achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions through alignment of voluntary initiatives and adoption of standards, policies and national and international regulation.
This document provides guidance on what governance organizations and other organizations can do to effectively contribute to global efforts to limit warming to 1,5 °C by achieving net zero no later than 2050. It provides guidance on a common and equitable contribution and recognizes the capability of individual organizations in contributing to achieving global net zero. This document, when used in combination with applicable science-based pathways, provides guidance for organizations seeking to set robust climate strategies.
ISO 14064-1:2018, Greenhouse gases -- Part 1: Specification with guidance at the organization level for quantification and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions and removals.
ISO 14064-1:2018 details principles and requirements at the organization level for the quantification and reporting of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and removals. It includes requirements for the design, development, management, reporting and verification of an organization's GHG inventory.
ISO 14064-2:2019, Greenhouse gases -- Part 2: Specification with guidance at the project level for quantification, monitoring and reporting of greenhouse gas emission reductions or removal enhancements
ISO 14064-2:2006 specifies principles and requirements and provides guidance at the project level for the quantification, monitoring and reporting of activities intended to cause greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions or removal enhancements. It includes requirements for planning a GHG project, identifying and selecting GHG sources, sinks and reservoirs (SSRs) relevant to the project and baseline scenario, monitoring, quantifying, documenting and reporting GHG project performance and managing data quality.
ISO 14064-3:2019, Greenhouse gases -- Part 3: Specification with guidance for the verification and validation of greenhouse gas assertions
ISO 14064-3:2019 describes a process for providing assurance to intended users that an organization's or project's GHG assertions are complete, accurate, consistent, transparent and without material discrepancies. The processes of validation and verification are similar; however, there are differences in the emphasis of the activities. The process can be applied in two ways: internal and external. Internal applications can use this part of ISO 14064 as a guideline, whereas external applications can use it as a set of requirements.
ISO 14065:2020, General principles and requirements for bodies validating and verifying environmental information
ISO 14065:2020 specifies principles and requirements for bodies performing validation and verification of environmental information statements.
Any programme requirements related to bodies are additional to the requirements of this document.
This document is a sector application of ISO/IEC 17029:2019, which contains general principles and requirements for the competence, consistent operation and impartiality of bodies performing validation/verification as conformity assessment activities.
This document includes sector-specific requirements in addition to the requirements of ISO/IEC 17029:2019.
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ISO 14066:2023Environmental information Competence requirements for teams validating and verifying environmental information
technical experts and independent reviewers.
This document is applicable to all organizations that plan and conduct external or internal validations, verifications and agreed-upon procedures (AUP).
This document is not linked to any particular environmental information programmer. If a particular environmental information programmer is applicable, competence requirements of that environmental information programmer are additional to the requirements of this document.
ISO 14066 is under review by ISO/TC 207/SC 7/JWG 6.
ISO 14067:2018 Greenhouse gases -- Carbon footprint of products -- Requirements and guidelines for quantification and communication
ISO 14067:2018 specifies principles, requirements and guidelines for the quantification and reporting of the carbon footprint of a product (CFP), in a manner consistent with International Standards on life cycle assessment (LCA) (ISO 14040 and ISO 14044).
Requirements and guidelines for the quantification of a partial CFP are also specified.
This document is applicable to CFP studies, the results of which provide the basis for different applications (see Clause 4).
This document addresses only a single impact category: climate change. Carbon offsetting and communication of CFP or partial CFP information are outside the scope of this document.
This document does not assess any social or economic aspects or impacts, or any other environmental aspects and related impacts potentially arising from the life cycle of a product.
ISO 14068-1:2023, Climate change management Transition to net zero Part 1: Carbon neutrality
ISO 14068 provides principles, requirements, and guidance for achieving and demonstrating carbon neutrality. It focuses on quantifying, reducing, and offsetting carbon footprints, utilizing a hierarchical approach prioritizing direct and indirect GHG emission reductions and removal enhancements within the value chain over offsetting.
This standard is essential for entities committed to carbon neutrality, supporting sustainable development and transition to low GHG emission activities. It ensures that carbon neutrality efforts are true, fair, scientifically valid, and communicated transparently.
ISO/TR 14069:2013, Greenhouse gases -- Quantification and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions for organizations -- Guidance for the application of ISO 14064-1
ISO/TR 14069:2013 describes the principles, concepts and methods relating to the quantification and reporting of direct and indirect greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for an organization. It provides guidance for the application of ISO 14064-1 to greenhouse gas inventories at the organization level, for the quantification and reporting of direct emissions, energy indirect emissions and other indirect emissions.
ISO/TR 14069 is under review by ISO/TC 207/SC 7/WG 4.
ISO 14080:2018, Greenhouse gas management and related activities — Framework and principles for methodologies on climate actions
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This document gives guidelines by means of a framework and principles for establishing approaches and processes to:
— identify, assess and revise methodologies;
— develop methodologies;
— manage methodologies.
This document is applicable to climate actions to address climate change, including adaptation to its impacts and greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation in support of sustainability. Such actions can be used by or for projects, organizations, jurisdictions, economic sectors, technologies and products, policies, programmes and non-government activities.
This document does not create guidance for a specific methodology.
ISO 14083:2023, Greenhouse gases — Quantification and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions arising from transport chain operations
ISO 14083:2023 establishes a common methodology for the quantification and reporting of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions arising from the operation of transport chains of passengers and freight.
ISO 14090:2019, Adaptation to climate change — Principles, requirements and guidelines
This document specifies principles, requirements and guidelines for adaptation to climate change. This includes the integration of adaptation within or across organizations, understanding impacts and uncertainties and how these can be used to inform decisions.
This document is applicable to any organization, regardless of size, type and nature, e.g. local, regional, international, business units, conglomerates, industrial sectors, natural resource management units.
This document can support the development of sector-, aspect- or element-specific climate change adaptation standards.
ISO 14091:2021, Adaptation to climate change — Guidelines on vulnerability, impacts and risk assessment
This document gives guidelines for assessing the risks related to the potential impacts of climate change. It describes how to understand vulnerability and how to develop and implement a sound risk assessment in the context of climate change. It can be used for assessing both present and future climate change risks.
Risk assessment according to this document provides a basis for climate change adaptation planning, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation for any organization, regardless of size, type and nature.
ISO/TS 14092:2020, Adaptation to climate change — Requirements and guidance on adaptation planning for local governments and communities
This document specifies requirements and guidance on adaptation planning for local governments and communities.
This document supports local governments and communities in adapting to climate change based on vulnerability, impacts and risk assessments. In working with relevant interested parties, it also supports the setting of priorities, and the development and subsequent updating of an adaptation plan.
ISO 14093:2022, Mechanism for financing local adaptation to climate change — Performance-based climate resilience grants — Requirements and guidelines
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This document establishes an approach and methodology for a country-based mechanism to channel climate finance to subnational authorities to support climate change adaptation and to increase local resilience thereby contributing to the achievement of the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The country-based mechanism uses performance-based climate resilience grants (PBCRGs) which ensure programming and verification of climate change expenditures at the local level, offering strong incentives for performance improvements in enhanced resilience.
This document provides requirements and guidelines and is applicable to organizations such as national and subnational authorities, donors, companies, financial institutions and international organizations that are involved in implementing a country-based mechanism for channelling climate finance to subnational authorities to support climate change adaptation and resilience.
NOTE Another mechanism for supporting local adaptation is by direct support at the local level by donors without any financial flows from national government.
ISO 14097:2021, Greenhouse gas management and related activities — Framework including principles and requirements for assessing and reporting investments and financing activities related to climate change
This document specifies a general framework, including principles, requirements and guidance for assessing, measuring, monitoring and reporting on investments and financing activities in relation to climate change and the transition into a low-carbon economy. The assessment includes the following items:
— the alignment (or lack thereof) of investment and financing decisions taken by the financier with low-carbon transition pathways, adaptation pathways, and climate goals;
— the impact of actions through the financier’s investment and lending decisions towards the achievement of climate goals in the real economy, i.e. mitigation (greenhouse gas emissions) and adaptation (resilience);
— the risks to owners of financial assets (e.g. private equities, listed stocks, bonds, loans) arising from climate change.
To support the financier’s assessment of the impact of investment and lending decisions, this document provides guidance for the financier on how to:
— set targets and determine metrics to be used for tracking progress related to the low-carbon transition pathways of investees;
— determine low-carbon transition and adaptation trajectories of investees;
— document the causality or linkage between its climate action and its outputs, outcomes and impacts.
This document is applicable to financiers, i.e. investors and lenders. It guides their reporting activities to the following third parties: shareholders, clients, policymakers, financial supervisory authorities and non-governmental organizations.
ISO 19694-1:2021, Stationary source emissions — Determination of greenhouse gas emissions in energy-intensive industries — Part 1: General aspects
ISO 19694-1:2021 specifies principles and requirements for the determination of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from sector-specific sources such as from steel and iron, cement, aluminium, lime and ferroalloy-producing industries.
This document specifies definitions and requirements valid to the sector-specific parts of ISO 19694 series. It provides common methodological issues and defines the details for applying the requirements for the harmonized methods, which include:
- measuring, testing and quantifying methods for GHG emissions of the above-mentioned sector-specific sources in the cited standards;
- assessing the level of GHG emissions performance of production processes over time at production sites;
- establishing and providing reliable, accurate and quality information for reporting and verification purposes.
The application of this document to the other sector-specific standards in the ISO 19694 series ensures accuracy, precision and reproducibility of the obtained results. For this reason, it is a generic standard.