Overview
EN ISO 14064-2:2019 - Greenhouse gases, Part 2 - provides specification and guidance at the project level for the quantification, monitoring and reporting of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions or removal enhancements. Published by CEN as the European adoption of ISO 14064-2:2019, this standard sets out principles, requirements and good-practice guidance for planning and implementing GHG projects, including how to define baselines, identify relevant sources, sinks and reservoirs (SSRs), manage data quality, and prepare project documentation and reports. The ISO 14060 family is GHG-programme neutral; programme-specific rules may add requirements.
Key Topics and Requirements
- Project planning and description: requirements for describing project scope, boundaries and objectives at the project level.
- Identification of GHG SSRs: guidance on selecting sources, sinks and reservoirs relevant to the project and the baseline scenario.
- Baseline determination: principles for establishing a credible baseline scenario against which project impacts (reductions or enhancements) are quantified.
- Quantification and monitoring: methods to quantify emissions and removals and to design monitoring approaches that ensure reliable measurement over the project lifetime.
- Data quality management: requirements for managing accuracy, completeness, consistency, transparency and conservativeness of GHG data.
- Documentation, reporting and verification: guidance on preparing project documentation, reporting GHG performance and enabling independent validation/verification.
- Underlying principles: relevance, completeness, consistency, accuracy, transparency and conservativeness are explicitly embedded in the standard.
- Updates from earlier editions: the 2019 edition revises concepts such as additionality and baseline scenario design; text related to the Kyoto mechanism has been removed.
Applications
- Developing, implementing and documenting GHG reduction or carbon removal projects (e.g., reforestation, energy-efficiency, methane capture).
- Supporting participation in voluntary carbon markets, corporate sustainability programs, and local or national mitigation initiatives.
- Providing a project-level framework for carbon credit generation and performance tracking.
- Informing strategies for carbon risk management, investment assessments and environmental reporting.
Who uses this standard
- Project developers, sustainability and environmental managers
- GHG quantification consultants and auditors/third-party verifiers
- Regulators, registries and programme administrators
- Corporations and NGOs implementing mitigation projects
Related Standards
- ISO 14064-1 - organization-level GHG inventories
- ISO 14064-3 - guidance for verification and validation of GHG assertions
- More broadly, the ISO 14060 family for GHG quantification, monitoring, reporting and assurance.
Keywords: EN ISO 14064-2:2019, greenhouse gas project, GHG quantification monitoring reporting, baseline, SSR, data quality, GHG verification.