This training specifies principles and requirements at the organizational level for the quantification and the reporting of Green House Gas (GHG) emissions and removals.  It includes requirements for design, development, management, reporting and verification of an organization's GHG inventory.   

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ISO 14064 has applications for both for the private and the public sector. For businesses, the standard provides the steps to developing an inventory that is not only able to be easily verified but can be compared to the inventories of other organizations. By using the standard as a guide, these businesses can reduce costs of conducting and verifying an inventory. Because the standard represents consensus on technical GHG inventory best practices, these businesses can also have greater confidence in the inventories that are produced and these inventories have more credibility with stakeholders.

 

For government entities, ISO 14064 provides a base technical structure for conducting inventories and conducting verification and this structure can form the foundation of voluntary or regulatory programs. This approach allows effort of agencies to focus on identifying additional requirements of the program to reach policy objectives.