The loss of market share by the ISO standard for carbon accounting, or carbon footprint, of product and organization is due to a simple reason. They are not freely available.

This implies a simple consequence. Policy makers, programmes and companies prefer always more the use of the freely available GHG Protocol set of documents, even if ISO standards are the result of a broader international cooperation and a fully transparent and collaborative process.

In the London declaration “ISO hereby commits to work with its members, stakeholders and partners to ensure that International Standards and publications accelerate the successful achievement of the Paris Agreement, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the United Nations Call for Action on Adaptation and Resilience.”

We, as experts involved in the ISO processes and other important stakeholders, believe that for a standard developer organization “accelerate the successful achievement of the Paris Agreement” shall implies to make freely available its two key standards for carbon accounting, or carbon footprint, of organization and product (ISO 14064-1 and ISO 14067).

The exceptional condition to make some standards freely available already happened during the exceptional historical moment of the COVID-19 and we strongly believe that the two mentioned ISO standards are in the same way needed for facing another historical challenge: the climate crisis.

ISO shall recognize that this choice will not affect the business model of any National Standard Bodies because this decision will return a central role of ISO standards on climate change and, on the opposite, the perpetration of the actual unsustainable approach will result in a short time in makinmg ISO standards on climate change simply irrelevant.

For what described above the signing stakeholders requires to ISO to promptly make ISO 14064-1 and ISO 14067 freely available.