ISO and its Carbon Footprint standardization work

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ISO and its Carbon Footprint standardization work

• WTO CTE Information Session on
• Carbon Footprint and Labelling Schemes
• Rob Steele, ISO Secretary-General
• Klaus Radunsky, ISO Working Group Convener for
  ISO 14067
• WTO, Geneva, 2010-02-17

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The ISO System
as at Dec 2009
162 national members 98 of world GDP 97 of
world population

• IT tools
• Standards development procedures
• Consensus building
• Dissemination

192 active TCs 3 183 technical bodies 50 000
experts
Central Secretariatin Geneva 153 FTE staff
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International Standards and Private Standards

• Trade, public policies and international
  standards
• Formal international standardization
• Private standards in the ICT sector, in agri-food
  and on social/environmental issues
• Claims, labels, certification, schemes and
  compliance

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ISO work responding to climate change (1)

• Greenhouse Gas Work (TC 207/SC7)
• GHG quantification and reporting
• Competence of GHG validation/verification teams
• Requirements for GHG bodies for use in
  accreditation
• Carbon footprint of products and organizations
• Energy efficiency and performance
• Concepts and terminology
• Building performance and efficiency
• Equipment standards (heat pumps)
• ISO 50001 energy performance
• Renewable energy sources
• Solar H/C technologies, terminology, performance
  ratings, test methods
• Wind Gears, turbines, IEC joint work
• Biofuel specs gas, solid and liquid

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ISO work responding to climate change (2)

• Measuring impacts of climate change
• UN-ISO cooperation on Global Terrestrial
  Observing System river discharge, snow/land
  cover, biomass
• Transportation
• Electric vehicles, batteries, vehicle-to-grid
  technologies
• Intelligent transport systems
• Sustainability perspectives
• ISO 26000 on Social Responsibility
• Bioenergy sustainability criteria
• Sustainability in building construction
• Sustainable event management 250)
• ISO workshop on sustainable business districts
• Sustainable tourism

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Development of ISO 14067 onCarbon footprint of
products (Part 1 Quantification and Part 2
Communication)

• Presented by
• Klaus Radunsky
• ISO Working Group Convener
• Information Session on PCF Labelling Schemes
• WTO, Geneva, 17 Feb 2010

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Overview

• Development of ISO 14067 - milestones
• ISO TC207/SC7/WG2
• ISO 14067-1, contents
• ISO 14067-2, contents
• Comparison of objectives
• Role of CFP
• Harmonization
• Challenges
• Next steps
• Vision and realities

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Milestones

• Apr 2008 1st meeting of ISO/TC 207 WG 2 (Vienna)
• Jun 2008 2nd meeting of ISO/TC 207 WG 2 (Bogota)
• Nov 2008 NWIP on CFP agreed
• Dec 2008 WD of ISO 14067
• Jan 2009 3rd meeting of ISO/TC 207 WG 2 (Kota
  Kinabalu)
• Apr 2009 WD 1 of ISO 14067
• Jun 2009 4th meeting of ISO/TC 207 WG 2 (Cairo)
• Sept 2009 WD2 ISO 14067
• Oct 2009 5th meeting of ISO/TC 207 WG 2 (Vienna)
• Dec 2009 WD 3 ISO 14067
• Feb 2010 6th meeting of ISO/TC 207 WG 2 (Tokyo)
• Mar 2010 CD of ISO 14067

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ISO/TC 207/SC 7 WG 2

• Convenors Klaus Radunsky (Austria) Daegun Oh
  (Korea)
• Secretary Katherina Wührl (DIN, DE)
• 107 Experts from 30 countries (including DC
  such as China, Argentina, Indonesia, Malaysia,
  Mexico, Brazil)
• Capacity building program by Sweden (SIS-Sida
  project) MENA region (Lebanon, Syria, Israel,
  Palestine, Jordan)
• Liasions
• Within TC207, with other TCs
• With other organisations (ANEC, IAI, EC, IEC,
  GEN, WRI/WBCSD)

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ISO 14067 Carbon footprint of products - Part 1
QuantificationContents

• INTRODUCTION
• SCOPE
• NORMATIVE REFERENCES
• TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
• PRINCIPLES
• METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK
• GENERAL
• GOAL AND SCOPE DEFINITION OF THE QUANTIFICATION
  OF CFP
• GOAL OF CFP STUDY
• SCOPE OF CFP STUDY (FUNCTIONAL UNIT, BOUNDARIES,
  OFFSETTING, DATA DATA QUALITY, USE STAGE USE
  PROFILE)
• INVENTORY ANALYSIS OF CFP
• GENERAL
• TIME PERIOD FOR ASSESSMENT OF GHG EMISSIONS
• TREATMENT OF SPECIFIC GHG EMISSION SOURCES AND
  SINKS (ELECTRICITY SUPPLY, LAND USE CHANGE)
• ALLOCATION TO CO-PRODUCTS
• IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF CFP
• INTERPRETATION OF CFP
• REPORTING
• ANNEXES (informative) A (GWP), D (Limitations),
  E (LUC)

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ISO 14067 Carbon footprint of products - Part 2
Communication Contents

• INTRODUCTION
• SCOPE
• NORMATIVE REFERENCES
• TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
• OBJECTIVE
• PRINCIPLES
• USE OF PRODUCT CATEGORY RULES
• GUIDANCE ON COMMUNICATION
• REQUIREMENTS AND PROCEDURES FOR COMMUNICATION OF
  CFP
• General (Declarations, Requirements for
  Declarations Directed to End Consumers,
  Confidentiality, Units of measurement, Age of
  data)
• Declaring Overall Emissions
• Declaring emissions for specific stages of the
  life cycle
• Declarations making Comparisons
• VERIFICATION
• Annex (normative) The content of the CF-PCR
  document

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Comparison of objectives/expectations (1)

• PAS 2050
• internal assessment of life cycle GHG emissions
  of products
• Facilitates evaluation of alternative product
  configurations
• Benchmark for programmes aimed at reducing GHG
  emissions
• Allows for comparison of goods and services
• Supports reporting on corporate responsibility
• Provides a common basis for reporting and
  communicating life cycle GHG emissions
• Provides an opportunity for greater consumer
  understanding of life cycle GHG emissions
• WRI/WBCSD
• Guidance for companies and other organizations to
  prepare an inventory of emissions associated with
  a product
• Primary purpose to support public reporting of
  product life cycle GHG emissions to help users
  reduce these emissions
• Public reporting refers to providing
  emissions-related information for a product, in
  accordance with the reporting requirements
  specified under the standard
• Standard
• does not directly enable comparative assertions
  or product labeling
• Is not intended to support the accounting of GHG
  emission offsets or claims of carbon neutrality

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Comparison of objectives/expectations (2)

• ISO
• Benefits organizations, governments, project
  proponents and stakeholders by providing clarity
  and consistency for quantifying, monitoring,
  reporting and verifying the carbon footprint of
  products
• Part 1 specifies principles and requirements for
  studies to quantify Carbon Footprint of Products
  (CFP), based on the method of life cycle
  assessment (LCA)
• Part 2 specifies
• requirements for the development of information
  to communicate the carbon footprint of products,
  calculated according to Part 1 of ISO 14067
• Guidelines how to use such information on the
  CFP

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Harmonization

• Harmonization common goal for PAS2050, WRI/WBCSD
  ISO
• Focus on requirements
• Also relevant principles terms definitions
  verification
• Means of harmonization
• Limits of harmonization
• Added value of more than one approach

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Role of CFP

• Refers to the calculation of the amount of GHG
  emissions associated with a company, event,
  activity, or the lifecycle of a good/service,
• Enables to ascertain and manage GHG emissions
  along the supply chain
• Safeguards the survival of companies in the
  changing regulatory and economic business
  landscape
• Furthers the understanding of the risks and
  opportunities in the supply chain
• Allows to focus effort in response to new
  regulatory, shareholder and consumer pressures

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Challenges - CFP

• Basic challenge
• right balance between practicality
  environmental integrity/credibility
• Role of PCRs
• Timing
• Harmonization WRI/WBCSD PAS2050 ISO 14067
• Common basis Life Cycle Assessment (ISO 14040)
• ISO also ISO 14020 (labelling) and ISO 14064
  (verification)

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Next steps

• Next meeting 6th meeting WG 2 León (Mexico)
  July 2010
• Current planning
• CD registration March 2010
• DIS registration Sept 2010
• FDIS registration Sept 2011
• IS publication March 2012
• Faster track option
• DIS registration March 2010
• FDIS registration June 2011
• IS publication Oct 2011

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Vision and realities

• Transition to a zero/low-carbon society implies
  that the CFP of all products and services have to
  be managed
• Economic crises offers a unique opportunity to
  restructure the supply chains of products
• Bottom-up efforts along supply chains complement
  top-down efforts at national and international
  level
• Reducing the risks of climate change may require
  negative global GHG emissions after 2050

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