Greenhouse Gas Statement Verification: ISO:14064-1

ISO 14064-1

Verification of Environment Information Statements: Greenhouse Gas

I.S. EN ISO 14064-1 2019: Greenhouse gases — Part 1: Specification with guidance at the organization level for quantification and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions and removals. The standard details principles and requirements for designing, developing, managing and reporting organization-level GHG boundaries and inventories. Requirements and guidance on inventory quality management, reporting, internal auditing and the organization’s responsibilities in verification activities are also included in the standard.

This standard is available from NSAI Standards.

NSAI Verification Scheme (14064-1)

The NSAI Verification Scheme for the Verification of Environmental Information Statements – Greenhouse Gas (EIS-GHG) is offered to organisations who have developed a Greenhouse Statement (*EIS: GHG) of their Greenhouse gas emissions and removals inventories and require third party verification of its conformity to I.S. EN ISO 14064-1:2019: Greenhouse gases — Part 1.

*For the purposes of this scheme and ISO14065 the term *Greenhouse Gas Statement is replaced with the term Environmental Information Statement: Greenhouse Gas (EIS: GHG), the EIS: GHG can be provided in a GHG report.

The scheme may also interest organisations who are required to provide a third party verified EIS: GHG to organisations required to comply with scope 3 reporting requirements of the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS (E 1) e.g AR46) and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).

The overall aim of the NSAI verification scheme is to issue a Verification opinion to give confidence to intended clients and users of verified information statements (claims) including regulatory authorities that a verified EIS: GHG both fulfils the verification scheme criteria (ISO 17029, ISO 14065, ISO14064-3 &ISO14064-1 for example) and that the GHG-related information is a true and fair account.

The NSAI verification scheme provides an independent level of assurance (limited or reasonable) on whether an organisation’s statement(claim), of historical information, is accurate and reliable. The value of verification is the establishment of public confidence through an impartial evaluation by a competent verification body (NSAI).

The NSAI verification scheme applies the general principles and requirements for verification bodies outlined in ISO:17029 (insert link to assessment process here), the general verification principles and requirements of ISO 14065 for environmental information statements, the requirements of ISO 14064-3 specification with guidance that applies to GHG statements and the criteria outlined in ISO 14064-1.

NSAI Verification Opinion

Following a successful completion of the verification process, NSAI can issue a verification opinion (formal declaration) to the organisation to provide confidence that the EIS: GHG is materially correct and confirms conformity with the Verification criteria defined in the verification opinion.

Do you wish to receive a no obligation quotation for verification? Simply complete and return the NSAI Quotation form.

Background to ISO 14064-1:

Climate change arising from anthropogenic activity has been identified as one of the greatest challenges facing the world and will continue to affect business and citizens over future decades.

There is a need for an effective and progressive response to the urgent threat of climate change on the basis of the best available scientific knowledge. ISO produces documents that support the transformation of scientific knowledge into tools that will help address climate changing initiatives on mitigation rely on the quantification, monitoring, reporting and verification of GHG emissions and/or removals.

ISO 14064-1 is part of the ISO 14060 family of standards, the International Standards Organisation (ISO) produced the ISO 14060 standards to provide clarity and consistency for quantifying, monitoring, reporting and validating or verifying GHG emissions and removals to support sustainable development through a low- carbon economy and to benefit organizations, project proponents and interested parties worldwide.

This standard supports the implementation of voluntary initiatives, such as participation in voluntary GHG registries or sustainability reporting initiatives e.g Environmental, Social, Governance sustainability reporting (ESG).

Access to Verification scheme information on the NSAI website here