ISO Guide 84:2020

Guidelines for addressing climate change in standards

This document provides guidance to standards developers on how to take account of climate change in the planning, drafting, revision and updating of ISO standards and other deliverables. It outlines a framework and general principles that standards developers can use to develop their own approach to addressing climate change on a subject-specific basis. It aims to enable standards developers to include adaptation to climate change (ACC) and climate change mitigation (CCM) considerations in their standardization work. Considerations related to ACC are intended to contribute to increasing preparedness and disaster reduction as well as impacting the resilience of organizations and their technologies, activities or products (TAPs). Considerations related to CCM consist primarily of approaches that seek to avoid, reduce or limit the release of GHG emissions and/or increase GHG removals.

Lignes directrices pour la prise en compte des changements climatiques dans les normes

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 09-Jul-2020
• ICS: 01.120 - Standardization. General rules
• ICS: 13.020.01 - Environment and environmental protection in general
• Technical Committee: ISO/TMBG - Technical Management Board - groups
• Drafting Committee: ISO/TMBG - Technical Management Board - groups
• Current Stage: 9092 - International Standard to be revised
• Completion Date: 29-May-2024

Standards Content (Sample)

GUIDE 84
First edition
2020-07
Guidelines for addressing climate
change in standards
Lignes directrices pour la prise en compte des changements
climatiques dans les normes
Reference number
ISO GUIDE 84:2020(E)
©
ISO 2020

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Contents Page
Foreword .v
Introduction .vi
1 Scope . 1
2 Normative references . 1
3 Terms, definitions and abbreviated terms . 1
3.1 Terms and definitions . 1
3.2 Abbreviated terms . 8
4 Understanding and responding to climate change . 8
4.1 What is climate change? . 8
4.2 Climate change mitigation and adaptation to climate change . 9
4.2.1 General. 9
4.2.2 Climate change mitigation . 9
4.2.3 Adaptation to climate change .10
4.2.4 Interrelation between climate change mitigation and adaptation to
climate change .10
5 Addressing climate change in standards.10
5.1 General .10
5.2 Principles related to addressing climate change in standards .11
5.2.1 General.11
5.2.2 Interactivity .11
5.2.3 Clarity .11
5.2.4 Involvement of interested
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