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Verification and Validation based on ISO 14064-1, ISO 14064-2, ISO 14064-3 Standards

Ensure that your reports and processes are fully compliant with the requirements for the inventory and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

Understanding of ISO 14064 Standards

ISO 14064 standards provide a comprehensive framework for managing greenhouse gas emissions, enabling organizations to measure, report and improve their environmental performance.

 ISO 14064-1: Determination and Management of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

ISO 14064-1 is the first step for any organization that wants to manage its greenhouse gas emissions. This standard guides you on how to identify, quantify and report your emissions:

  • Limiting Emissions: Your organization should define the limits of the emissions it will measure, ie which activities and sources inside and outside your premises will be included. This can range from direct emissions of fuel consumed to indirect emissions from electricity consumption.
  • Quantification: Once you’ve determined what you’re going to measure, you need to use reliable methods to quantify your emissions. This means using correct activity data (eg, how much fuel you used) and established emission factors (eg, how many kilograms of CO2 are produced per liter of fuel).
  • Report: With this information, you create reports that accurately capture your environmental footprint. These reports are critical for transparency and trust with investors, customers and regulators.

 ISO 14064-2: Management of Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Projects

If your organization implements projects aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, then ISO 14064-2 is the standard for you.

  • Design and Implementation of Projects: This standard sets out the requirements for the design and implementation of projects that bring about a real reduction in emissions, either through reducing energy use or through increasing carbon absorption (eg, through tree planting).
  • Measuring and Reporting Results: During and after project completion, you should monitor results and report emission reductions in a verifiable manner. This ensures that the results are measurable and that your actions bring about the desired environmental benefit.

 ISO 14064-3: Verification and Validation of Greenhouse Gas Reports

ISO 14064-3 is about verifying and validating your greenhouse gas emissions reports. This template is critical to the credibility of your reports:

  • Evaluation and Assurance: A CERT, as an accredited body, evaluates your reports to ensure they are accurate and complete. This includes examining the data, ensuring that measurement and reporting are done correctly, and identifying potential hazards that may affect the reliability of the results.
  • Reports and Conclusions: After verification, we provide you with a detailed report with the results of the process, together with recommendations for improvements where necessary. This helps you boost the credibility and transparency of your reporting, which is critical to your organization’s reputation.

Application Examples of ISO 14064-1

  • Energy Emission Inventory: A business records greenhouse gas emissions from electricity consumption in its facilities.
  • Transport Emissions Inventory: An organization records emissions from its fleet of vehicles, including trucks and company cars.
  • Industrial Production Emissions Inventory: An industry records direct emissions from its industrial processes, such as the use of fuels in furnaces.
  • Heating Emissions Inventory: An organization records the emissions resulting from heating its buildings with natural gas.
  • Determining Refrigerant Emissions: A company records emissions from the refrigerants it uses for refrigeration and air conditioning.
  • Inventory of Indirect Emissions: A multinational company records indirect emissions from its supply chain, such as the transportation of raw materials.
  • Waste Emission Inventory: An organization records emissions from waste management, including emissions from the decomposition of organic waste.
  • Construction Emissions Recording: A company records emissions from construction activities, such as the use of cement.
  • Reporting Purpose Emissions Inventory: A company records emissions from specific activities to produce environmental management reports.
  • Corporate Travel Emissions Tracking: An organization tracks emissions from air travel by its employees.

 Application Examples of ISO 14064-2

  • Energy Efficiency Upgrade Project: A company implements a project to upgrade the energy equipment of its facilities, reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
  • Renewable Energy Installation: A project involving the installation of solar panels at an industrial plant to produce clean energy.
  • Biofuel Project : A company is implementing a project that involves the use of biofuels instead of traditional fuels, reducing CO 2 emissions .
  • Building Energy Renovation Project: A company is renovating its office buildings with insulation and energy efficient heating and cooling systems.
  • Reforestation Project: A project that involves the reforestation of a large area to increase CO 2 absorption by forests.
  • Cogeneration Project: A project involving the development of cogeneration systems to increase fuel efficiency.
  • Industrial Waste Emission Reduction Project: An industry is implementing a project to treat industrial waste in a way that reduces methane emissions.
  • Product Transport Energy Saving Project: A project involving the optimization of product transport to reduce fuel consumption.
  • Refrigerant Replacement Project: A company is replacing old refrigerants with new generation, more environmentally friendly, emissions-reducing refrigerants.
  • Material Recycling and Reuse Project: A project involving the promotion of material recycling and reuse to reduce waste and emissions.

Application Examples of ISO 14064-3

  • Verification of Energy Emissions Reports: An organization requests verification of its reports on emissions from electricity consumption.
  • Verification of Transportation Emissions Reports: Verifying the accuracy of data recording emissions from an organization’s vehicle fleet.
  • Verification of Industrial Production Reports: Verification of emissions reports resulting from a company’s industrial processes.
  • Heating Emissions Verification: An independent body verifies the accuracy of building heating emissions reports.
  • Verification of Cooling Emissions: Verification of emissions related to the use of refrigerants in an office building.
  • Verification of Emissions from Renewable Energy Projects: Verification of emissions reduced through the installation of renewable energy sources.
  • Verification of Reports on Reforestation Projects: Verification of reports concerning the reduction of CO 2 emissions through reforestation.
  • Verification of Emissions from Material Recycling: Checking reports describing emission reductions from recycling and reuse projects.
  • Verification of Cogeneration Reports: Verification of reports describing emission reductions through cogeneration projects.
  • Verification of Reports on Emission Reduction Projects: An independent body verifies the accuracy of reports describing the successes of greenhouse gas emission reduction projects.

Certification of an environmental management system is the official recognition of its actual implementation and is considered to be a factual proof and commitment of a company against the protection of the environment and sustainable management.

Certification Application

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ISO 9001

 No.  Document Title Version
 1. QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM APPLICATION FORM 09/310709
 

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The requirements for a quality system have been standardized – but many organizations like to consider themselves as unique. So how does ISO 9001:2008 allow the multiformity, on the one hand for a sole trader, and for a multinational manufacturing company with service components, or a public utility, or a government administration on the other hand?
The answer is that ISO 9001:2008 lays down the requirements a quality system must meet, but does not indicate how they should be met in a particular organization. This leaves great scope and flexibility for implementation in different business sectors and business cultures, as well as in different national cultures.

  1. The standard requires the organization itself to audit its QMS according to ISO 9001:2008 – in order to verify that it is managing its processes effectively – or, in other words, to check that it is fully in control of its activities.
  2. In addition, the organization may invite its clients to audit the quality system in order to give them confidence that the organization is capable of delivering products or services that will meet their requirements.
  3. Lastly, the organization may engage the services of an independent quality system certification body to obtain an ISO 9001:2008 certificate of conformity. This last option has been proved extremely popular in the market due to the perceived credibility of an independent assessment.
    The organization may thus avoid multiple audits by its clients, or reduce the frequency or duration of client audits. The certificate can also serve as a business reference between the organization and potential clients, especially when supplier and client are new to each other, or far removed geographically, as in an export context.

ISO 9001:2008 introduces no new requirements. ISO 9001:2008 introduces just clarifications for the existing requirements of ISO 9001:2000 based on eight years of experience of implementing the standard world wide with about one million certificates issued in 170 countries up to date.
It also introduces changes intended to improve consistency with ISO14001:2004.

As the name “International Organization for Standardization” would have different acronyms in different languages (“IOS” in English, “OIN” in French for Organisation internationale de normalisation), its founders decided to give it also a short, all-purpose name.
They chose “ISO”, derived from the Greek isos, meaning “equal”.
Whatever the country, whatever the language, the short form of the organization’s name is always ISO.

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