ISO 14064 – ORIGINS,
CONCEPTS AND CHALLENGES
Sao Paolo
Tuesday 6 March 2007
Nigel Carter, Convenor
ISO 14064.1
Topics
• Why an ISO standard – work of the CC TF
• Source Material
• Key issues
• The standards
Why an ISO standard?
• Climate Change Task Force (CCTF)
published initial papers 1998
• Preliminary database compiled based on
secondary information - some discussion
with relevant ISO committees - BUT need
to establish better communications
Facts and figures
• ISO TC 207 CCTF: • ISO TMB AHG CC:
– Established June 1998 – Established January
2000
– 36 countries take part
– TMB Members, invitees
– Focus on ISO 14000 and observers (e.g.
series standards UNFCCC, CTI)
– Series of interim – Develop pan-ISO
reports for UNFCCC strategy
audience – Focal point for
– Business booklet communications
– Case studies – Inventory of existing ISO
standards, Guides and
– UNFCCC side events Technical Reports
– Communications – Provision of strategic
advice to the TMB
– Consideration of NWIPs
Existing ISO work
TCs most strategically placed or Other TCs of direct relevance:
active vis-à-vis climate change:
22Road Vehicles
59 Building Construction 27Solid Mineral Fuels
146 Air Quality 70Internal Combustion Engines
180 Solar Energy 86Refrigeration and Air
190 Soil Quality Conditioning
197 Hydrogen Technologies 160 Glass in Building
203 Technical Energy Systems 163 Thermal Insulation
205 Building Environment Design 192 Gas Turbines
207 Environmental Management 193 Natural Gas
208 Thermal Turbines
IO TC 207 Working Group 5..
• …established 2002
• Three priority areas were identified:
– Methodological guidance for establishing GHG project
baselines
– GHG project monitoring, reporting and verification
protocols or plans
– GHG measurement, reporting and verification with
different scopes and boundaries:
• Organization / Facility, Project or Product
• Reductions in GHG emissions / GHG removals
Source materials
• UK ETS
• UNEP GHG Indicator Report
• WBCSD/GRI GHG Protocol
• Canadian CC Voluntary Challenge &
Register
• Standards Australia – Carbon Accounting
Standard
• Sundry US state CC protocols
WG5 Approach
• Work from WBCSD/WRI GHG Protocol
• Three part standard:
- emission inventory quantification
and reporting
- quantification, monitoring and
reporting of project emissions and
removals
- validation, verification and certification
WG5 Approach
• ISO standard would be subordinate to the
requirements of national or regional standards,
e.g. UK ETS
• Would not reference UNFCC/Kyoto material
Remember…..
• …..it’s all about money!!
Relationships between the standards
ISO 14064-1 ISO 14064-2
Design and Develop Design and Implement
Organizational GHG GHG Projects
Inventories
GHG Inventory GHG Project
Documentation Documentation
and Reports and Reports
Requirements
of the
GHG Assertion Level of GHG Assertion Applicable
assurance GHG
Verification consistent with Validation and/or Programme
needs of Verification or Intended
intended user User
ISO 14064-3
Verification Process Validation and Verification Process
For example ISO 14065
programme (Publication soon) programme
specific Requirements for specific
Validation or Verification
Bodies
ISO 14064.1 -Greenhouse gases — —
Part 1: Specification with guidance at the
organization level for quantification and
reporting of greenhouse gas emissions and
removals
• Base year
• GHGs include carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4),
nitrous oxide (N2O), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs),
perfluorocarbons (PFCs) and sulphur hexafluoride (SF6).
• Materiality - concept that individual or the aggregation of
errors, omissions and misrepresentations could affect
the GHG assertion and could influence the intended
user’s decisions
Organisational Boundaries
Organization GHG
Emissions and
Removals
Facility 1 Facility x
GHG Source GHG Source GHG Source GHG Source
1,1 1,n x,1 x,n
GHG Sink GHG Sink GHG Sink GHG Sink
1,1 1,n x,1 x,n
Organization Boundary
ISO 14064.1 -Greenhouse gases — Part 1:
quantification and reporting of greenhouse gas
emissions and removals
• Direct GHG emissions and removals; energy indirect
GHG emissions; indirect GHG emissions
• Quantification methodology
• Uncertainty - parameter associated with the result of
quantification which characterizes the dispersion of the
values that could be reasonably attributed to the
quantified amount
• Requirement for quality management of data compilation
• Reporting
• Verification
ISO 14064.2 - Specification with guidance
at the project level for quantification,
monitoring and reporting of greenhouse
gas emission reductions or removal
enhancements
Atmosphere
positive negative
flow flow
= emission = removal
neutral
flow
= transfer
stock
Power plant Forest
stock
Aquifer
ISO 14064.2 - Specification with guidance at
the project level for quantification, monitoring
and reporting of greenhouse gas emission
reductions or removal enhancements
• Base line scenario
• Planning and implementation
• Project validation
• Project verification (post-commissioning)
ISO 14064.3 - — Part 3: Specification with
guidance for the validation and verification of
greenhouse gas assertions
The extent of the validation and verification activities
depends on the:
- Level of assurance required;
- Needs of the intended user;
- Objectives of the validation or verification activities;
- - GHG criteria.
ISO 14064.3 - Part 3: Specification with
guidance for the validation and verification of
greenhouse gas assertions
• competent verifiers/validators (ISO 14065)
• Scope
• Criteria
• Materiality
• …shall assess sources and magnitude of potential
errors, omissions and misrepresentations for further
validation or verification activities
• …evidence collected in the assessments of controls,
GHG data and information, and applicable GHG
programme criteria supports the GHG assertion
• Offer a level of assurance
The end
