ISO 1464-3:2019 Validation and Verification of GHG Inventories and GHG Projects

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Prerequisites
ISO 14604-1 and ISO 14064-2 requirements are not covered in this course but are referred to in order to understand and apply ISO 14064-3 requirements. To be fully engaged, you must have a strong knowledge of ISO 14064-1 and ISO 14064-2 before attending this course.

Course Description

This Standard specifies GHG Validation and Verification principles together with specific requirements and provides guidance for verifying and validating greenhouse gas (GHG) statements. It is applicable to organization, project and product GHG statements. The course provides specific examples of how the validation and verification approaches are applied to GHG inventories, project and carbon footprints of products that conform with ISO 14064-1 and 14064-2 and ISO 14067 Standards. The ISO 14064 family of standards is GHG programme neutral. If a GHG programme is applicable, requirements of that GHG programme are additional to the requirements of the ISO 14064 family of standards.

Course Agenda

Module 1: Overview of ISO 14064-3: 2019
Module 2: Review ISO 14064 -1 and ISO 14064-2 and other standards.
Module 3: Introduction to Validation/Verification.
Module 4: Principles of Validation/Verification.
Module 5: Requirements applicable to Validation/Verification.
Module 6: Verification Planning.
Module 7: Execution and Completion of Verification Activities
Module 8: Validation
Module 9: Independent Review and Issuance of a Validation or Verification Opinion.


    Objectives

    This course will allow participants to be able to:


    Describe ISO 14064-3 GHG (Greenhouse Gas) Standard as it applies to the verification of GHG Statement and to the validation of a GHG Project Statement, PDD, RPD or other GHG Project Assertion.


    Identify specific examples of how the verification approach is applied to GHG inventories, project and carbon footprints of products that conform with ISO 14064-1 and 14064-2 and ISO 14067 Standards


    • Describe high level requirements of ISO 14064-1 and ISO 14064-2.
    • Define verification/validation
    • Explain how to establish and assign roles and responsibilities
    • Know how verification fits in the inventory and verification/validation in project cycles
    • Distinguish between validation and verification
    • Identify verification/validation principles
    • Explain how the five verification/validation principles are applied to a project or GHG Inventory.
    • Describe verification/validation processes.
    • Describe Verification Plan / Validation Plan / Evidence – gathering plan.
    • Describe the various levels of assurance in GHG Validation and Verification assignments.


    • Identify and mitigate Validation and Verification Risks
    o Inherent Risk
    o Control Risk
    o Detection Risk
    • How to construct the Validation/Verification Statement
    o Unmodified opinion – Clause 7.3.2.2
    o Modified opinion – Clause 7.3.2.3
    o Adverse opinion – Clause 7.3.2.4
    o Disclaiming the issuance of an opinion




    Who should attend?

    • Accountants & Financial Professional in GHG
    • Auditors
    • Consultants
    • Design Architects/Environmental Engineers.
    • Public Finance Institution (PFI) practitioners.
    • Impact investors.
    • GHG Inventory Developers/Inventory Quantifiers
    • GHG Auditors/Verifiers
    • Government Regulators, Public workers, Regulatory Compliance Professionals
    • Managers and Developers of Carbon Neutral/Offsetting projects • Offset project developers, Project Mangers/Coordinators
    • Site, Utilities, Facility Managers/Operations Managers.
    • Designated Operational Entities (UN CDM)
    • GRI practitioners.
    • Persons working in Upstream Emission Reductions.
    • Those involved in the EU Fuel Quality Directive implementation.
    • Oil and Gas executives.

    • What's Included

    1) A copy of ISO 14064-3:2019 - Greenhouse gases -- Part 3: Specification with guidance for the verification and validation of greenhouse gas statements
    2) Participant Guide or Course Manual
    3) Case Study Part 1 – An Anaerobic Digester (AD) Case Study
    4) Case Study Part 2 - Project Validation Report for the Anaerobic Digester.
    5) Case Study Part 3 – First Operational Year Greenhouse Gas Report for the Anaerobic Digester
    6) CSA Case Study – Corporate Greenhouse Gas Inventory for Global Operations
    7) Ecometrica – Verification Report for a Corporate Greenhouse Gas Inventory for Global Operations.
    8) Activity Answer Key (available after session 4

    TRAINER PROFILE

    Fergal Mee


    Director of GHG Services, Carbon Action Environmental Director, Chris Mee Group


    Fergal Mee is the Director of Green house Gas(GHG)services at Carbon Action which is based in London. Carbon Action is part of the Ireland based Chris Mee Group where Fergal also serves as the Environmental Director. Prior to joining Chris Mee Group as Environmental Director, Fergal had 15 years of experience as a Plant Manager in Novartis where he has responsible for overseeing the environmental and energy operations. As Environmental Director for the Chris Mee Group, Fergal has been instrumental in the development of environmental related services, with an initial project in the European Union (EU) Energy Performance Buildings Directive (EPBD) and assignments in Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Licensing, Environmental Liability Assessments and Energy Management. In his role as Director of GHG Services at Carbon Action since 2008, Fergal has been actively involved in projects for the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS). In 2013, Carbon Action signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Business Expert Group (BE Group) where Carbon Action provided training courses as well as practical consultancy in ISO 14064 for companies operating in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) regions that include Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine. More recently, in 2016, Carbon Action entered into a training partnership with Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) and was involved in the delivery of carbon management training for CDP-responding companies in2016. Fergal was also one of the speakers in the recent panel discussion at the upcoming EU ETS Reform, Emissions Trading and Brexit workshop held in Dublin in April 2018 which saw participation of policy-makers, academics, and industry representatives following the announcement by the Council of the European Union’s formal approval of significant reform of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme in Feb2018.