EN ISO 14093:2025 PDF

Overview

EN ISO 14093:2025 (adoption of ISO 14093:2022) defines a country-based mechanism to channel climate finance to subnational authorities using performance-based climate resilience grants (PBCRGs). The standard provides requirements and guidelines for programming, verifying and incentivizing local adaptation spending to strengthen climate resilience and support the goals of the UNFCCC Paris Agreement and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is published by CEN as EN ISO 14093:2025 and is intended for use by national and subnational governments, donors, financial institutions, companies and international organizations.

Key Topics and Requirements

• Scope and applicability: Framework for a national mechanism to allocate adaptation finance to local governments and other subnational authorities.
• Performance-based grants (PBCRGs): Mechanism design that ties funding to verified performance improvements in resilience and adaptation outcomes.
• Designing a national system: Guidance on scoping analysis, alignment with national policies, linking planning and budgeting, and outlining country design reports.
• Minimum conditions and performance metrics: Principles for defining indicators, categories of minimum conditions, and performance metrics to assess subnational performance.
• Grant sizing and allocation: Guidance on grant size, allocation formulas and basic allocation examples (illustrative templates are included).
• Menu of eligible adaptation investments: Risk-informed investment options and sample investment menus (annexes provide examples and categories).
• Institutional arrangements and flow of funds: Roles, responsibilities, governance and public financial management to ensure transparent, accountable funding flows.
• Monitoring, validation and verification: Requirements for appraising performance, annual assessments, verification modalities and informing subsequent allocations.
• Capacity building and evaluation: Tools for institutional strengthening, capacity development, and evaluating the LoCAL mechanism (case studies included).

Applications and Users

EN ISO 14093 is practical for:

• National ministries designing mechanisms to channel international or domestic climate finance to local governments.
• Subnational authorities (municipalities, provinces) seeking structured access to adaptation funding tied to measurable performance.
• Donors and development banks that fund local adaptation and require standardized, verifiable grant mechanisms.
• Financial institutions and companies supporting climate-resilient investments or entering public–private adaptation initiatives.
• International organizations and NGOs implementing pilot PBCRG programs or scaling local adaptation financing.

Practical uses include creating country design reports, defining performance indicators, setting allocation formulas, selecting pilot local authorities, and establishing verification processes for adaptation expenditures.

Related standards and resources

• ISO/TC 207 (Environmental management) documents and related ISO environmental standards.
• UNFCCC Paris Agreement and UN SDGs (policy alignment contexts).
• Annexes in EN ISO 14093 provide LoCAL country case studies, sample outcome/output indicators, and sample investment menus for practical implementation.