Net Zero News – Late June 2024
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The British Standards Institution (BSI) has kick-started an 18-month process to develop a new, independently verifiable standard to assure the credibility of net-zero targets from businesses and other organisations.
BSI intends to launch the standard at the UN’s annual 2025 climate conference, COP30, which will be hosted in Brazil.
While BSI is based in the UK, it has more than 77,500 clients globally and has increased its international scope in recent years. The development of the new net-zero standard is being jointly convened by ICONTEC, Colombia’s national standards body.
It is hoped that experts from standards bodies across more than 170 countries will participate in BSI and ICONTEC’s standard development process. Once this stage of work is complete, a public consultation will be held in 2025.
