📄 What does ISO 14060 mean for CDR?

🙋🏻 If there is one person that has the answer, it is Delia Meth-Cohn, who set up and led the CDR working group within the ISO process.

🎙️ In today’s CDR Policy Scoop, I get to ask her all the hard questions. Here are a few things that stood out to me:

1️⃣ ISO feels genuinely complementary to SBTi. By design, it aims to cover all those companies that would not necessarily voluntarily sign-up to a standard.

2️⃣ ISO has credibility and will likely be used for governments, creating a compliance framework for corporate net-zero.

3️⃣ ISO will lead to thousands of additional companies researching, understanding, and integrating CDR into their core business strategy.

4️⃣ ISO provides significant flexibility in how to use CDR, recognising that every company, every context, every country is different.

5️⃣ ISO requires companies to act quickly. Within five years, a company needs to have a credible plan on how to use CDR to compensate of its residual emissions.

🏢 Overall, I’ve been really impressed by this draft. Yes, it lacks some of the specificity of the SBTi, but that is exactly the point, and ensures we are not duplicating efforts and genuinely reach more companies.

👇 As a reminder, the ISO 14060 is now up for public consultation (link in comments), and should be finalised and live by mid-2027 latest.

 For a full deep dive, make sure to check out the latest Scoop with Delia.

🎧 Listen here: https://lnkd.in/dxca7e_4

▶️ Watch on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/dJzRC-jG

❓ What is your take? Are you equally positive about this standard?

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