ISO 14067 Carbon Footprint of Products Awareness Training

ISO 14067 specifies principles, requirements and guidelines for quantifying and reporting the carbon footprint of a product. It builds directly on the life cycle assessment standards, narrowing them to a single impact category — climate change — and adding the requirements specific to greenhouse gases.

Customers, regulators and tender processes increasingly ask for a product carbon footprint. This course covers what a defensible one requires, how partial footprints are handled, and what may and may not be claimed from the result.

Objectives

• Understand what ISO 14067 requires and how it relates to ISO 14040, ISO 14044 and ISO 14064
• Quantify a product carbon footprint using a life cycle approach
• Handle biogenic carbon, land use change, offsetting and electricity supply correctly
• Distinguish a full cradle-to-grave footprint from a partial carbon footprint
• Produce a carbon footprint study report that will survive scrutiny
• Recognise the claims a footprint does and does not support

Course outline

• Greenhouse gases, global warming potential and CO2 equivalent
• Relationship between ISO 14067, ISO 14040/14044 and the GHG Protocol
• Goal, scope, functional unit and system boundary for a product footprint
• Data collection, primary versus secondary data and data quality
• Biogenic carbon, land use and land use change, carbon storage and delayed emissions
• Electricity: location-based and market-based accounting
• Partial carbon footprints and cradle-to-gate studies
• Reporting, verification and communicating results without greenwashing
• Using the footprint to drive real reduction

Who should attend

• Sustainability and environmental managers
• Product and packaging developers
• Supply chain and procurement professionals
• Quality and compliance managers
• Consultants preparing product carbon footprints

Learning outcomes

Participants will be able to scope and quantify a product carbon footprint in line with ISO 14067, judge the credibility of a footprint presented to them, and communicate the result accurately.