December 2014: The Greenhouse Gas Management Institute (GHGMI) and the International Standardization Organization (ISO) has organized a survey to assist in the development and shaping of a new climate change standards roadmap to be launched in 2015. The survey is open until December 21.

The survey questions address, inter alia: what climate change standards ISO should develop; rating existing ISO climate change standards; strengths and weaknesses (challenges and barriers) for the ISO committee developing the standards; and which organizations ISO should work more closely with. The results of these consultations and survey, and the strategic roadmap will be made available in 2015.

In 2006, the ISO Technical Committee on Environmental Management (ISO TC207) established the sub-committee on GHG Management and Related Issues (ISO TC207 SC7), which is responsible for developing a range of GHG standards and additional ISO products, such as the technical specification for product carbon footprinting (ISO TS 14067).

ISO is an independent, non-governmental membership organization and the world’s largest developer of voluntary international standards. It is made up of the national standards bodies of its 165 member countries and its secretariat is based in Geneva, Switzerland.

GHGMI was founded as a nonprofit organization in 2007 to build the GHG management infrastructure of the future, with a focus on training and supporting a global community of qualified professionals to work on GHG measurement, accounting, auditing and management. [Survey: Input to the Strategic Plan for ISO Climate Change Standards] [GHGMI Website]