ISO 14064

What is ISO 14064?

In parallel with the emergence of regulated or mandatory schemes relating to monitoring, reporting and verification of Greenhouse Gases (GHG), organisations outside of these schemes are now increasingly wishing to monitor and report their emissions (commonly referred to as the organization's carbon footprint).

In response to this demand and to provide an international standard against which such reports can be voluntarily verified, ISO 14064 has been developed.

ISO 14064 has been prepared in three parts:

ISO 14064, part 1
This details the principles and requirements for designing, developing, managing and reporting organization level GHG inventories. It includes requirements for determining boundaries, quantifying emissions and removals, and identifying specific company actions or activities aimed at improving GHG management. It also includes requirements and guidance on quality management of the GHG inventory, reporting, internal auditing and the organization's responsibilities for verification.

ISO 14064, part 2
This focuses on GHG projects or project based activities specifically designed to reduce GHG emissions or increase GHG removals. It includes principles and requirements for determining project baseline scenarios and for monitoring, quantifying and reporting project performance relative to that baseline and provides the basis for GHG projects to be validated and verified.

ISO 14064, part 3
This part of ISO 14064 provides principles, requirements and guidance for those conducting GHG information validation and verification. It 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.

How can ISO 14064 benefit my organisation?

ISO 14064 can help you:

• prove your commitment to reducing your carbon emissions
• develop robust internal mechanisms for quantifying and reporting GHG emissions
• prepare legitimate GHG assertions, claims and reports
• quantify and report emission reductions from projects

Why work with LRQA?

Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance (LRQA) is at the leading edge of GHG verification services across a range of sectors and schemes world-wide.

Local, National & International Experience

LRQA have experience of validation and verification within both voluntary mechanisms such as ISO 14064 and the Japanese Voluntary Emissions Trading Scheme and regulated schemes at a national level such as the UK Emissions Trading Scheme, a regional level such as the EU Emissions Trading Scheme and at international level such as the UNFCCC Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Joint Implementation.

Corporate Reports Experience

LRQA also have experience within other relevant areas of corporate report verification, including Corporate Sustainability and/or Environmental Reports.

Prime Position

LRQA are in a prime position to share experience and expertise to help clients manage their GHG data gathering, monitoring and reporting and gain robust third party verifications of their assertions.

Services LRQA offer for ISO 14064

We offer a range of validation, verification and training services relating to ISO 14064 which are:

• Training - public and in-house training related to ISO 14064.
• Implementation Workshops - facilitated workshops aimed at training your organisation on how to develop a process to implement standard conforming quantification and reporting systems to manage these issues for the future.
• Gap analysis - against ISO 14064 parts 1 or 2
• Verification - of an organisation's GHG assertions, claims and reports against ISO 14064, part 1.
• Validation and verification - of GHG projects against ISO 14064, part 2.

How can the standard be used?

The standard can be used:

• To implement robust systems for the monitoring and reporting of GHG emissions
• To facilitate the development and implementation of an organization's GHG management strategies and plans,
• To facilitate the ability to track performance and progress in the reduction of GHG emissions and/or the increase in GHG removals,
• To enhance the credibility, consistency and transparency of GHG quantification, monitoring and reporting to any interested parties,

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