The International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) announced that it has started working on the development of a new international standard on net zero, aimed at providing clarity and credibility to organisations’ net zero targets and strategies, and to guard against greenwashing.
The development of this standard follows the launch of the ISO Net Zero Guidelines in 2022 at the COP27 climate conference. The guidelines provide a best-practice tool for organisations to use when creating comprehensive net zero strategies.
According to ISO, the new process will transpose the guidelines into an independently verifiable international net zero standard, which is expected to be launched at the COP30 conference in November 2025. The market has been asking for an international standard which is suitable for organisations of all sizes, sectors and geographies.
The process to develop the new net zero standard is being convened by the British Standards Institution (BSI) and Colombia’s national standards body ICONTEC, with expected participation of thousands of experts through national standards bodies across more than 170 countries and a public consultation which is planned to open later in 2025.
The new process aims to address the complexity of the net zero landscape, with industries making progress on decarbonisation, which however are experience a lack of clarity risks slowing down efforts to turn ambition into action.
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