Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our times. A significant amount of Greenhouse gas emissions, causing climate change, come from business-driven activity. Climate change affects both human and natural systems and could lead to significant impacts on our wellbeing, biodiversity, and world economy. Recognizing the need for an effective and progressive response to the urgent threat of climate change, ISO established a series of scientific tools that will help address climate change. ISO 14064-1 set out principles and requirements for designing, developing, managing and reporting organization-level GHG inventories.
1.WHY ADOPT ISO 14064-1 TO QUANTIFY AND REPORT AN ORGANIZATION’S CARBON PERFORMANCE
ISO 14064-1 provides organizations with a framework for quantifying and reporting carbon emission performance to support sustainable development through a low carbon economy. By adopting ISO 14064-1, your organization may enjoy various benefits:
- Understand carbon performance of your organization
- Enhances the environmental integrity of GHG quantification
- Facilitates the development and implementation of GHG management strategies and plans
- Facilities the development and implementation of mitigation actions through emission reductions or removal enhancements
- Facilitate the ability to track performance and progress in the reduction of GHG emissions and/or increase in GHG removals
- Facilitate the participation on voluntary GHG registries or sustainability reporting initiatives
- Facilitate the participation on GHG trading markets or support the pursuance of carbon neutral
2. WHY USE ISO 14064-1 VERIFICATION SERVICES FROM SGS?
SGS can verify your organization’s GHG emissions and removals information impartially and objectively against ISO 14064-1 to verify your greenhouse gas emissions to enhance the credibility, consistency and transparency of your GHG statement in the market. Our professional carbon experts follow the principles and requirements specified in ISO 14064-3 to evaluate the completeness of the emission sources and activity data, the accuracy of the data handling and calculating process, the integrity of GHG information management system and the adherence to the ISO 14064-1 requirement. Verification by our experts ensures the independence of your assessments and reports.
3. VERIFICATION STEPS
In accordance to ISO 14064-3, our verification steps are:
Verification planning → Execution of verification activities → Completion of verification activities → Independent review → Issuance of the opinion
Verification planning:
- Document review
- Perform strategic analysis and risk assessment
- Develop evidence gathering plan and verification plan
Execution of verification activities:
- Conduct on-site verification
- Assess changes to the GHG statement
Completion of verification activities:
- Evaluate the GHG statement
- Reach a conclusion and draft an opinion
- Prepare a verification report
4. SGS IS HKAS ACCREDITED ISO 14064-1 VERIFICATION BODY IN HONG KONG
SGS is the first company to be an accredited GHG Verification Body under the Hong Kong Accreditation Service’s (HKAS) Certification Body Accreditation Scheme (HKCAS) and able to provide accredited ISO 14064-1 verification services.
HKAS Accredited ISO 14064-1 verification can help your organisation fulfil local and international requirements on sustainability reporting and demonstrate the integrity of your environmental credentials.
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