PAS 2050

Lifecycle greenhouse gas verification for goods and services. Understand and improve your supply chain footprint.

Life cycle GHG emissions are those released as part of the processes of creating, modifying, transporting, storing, using, providing, recycling or disposing of goods and services.

PAS 2050 (a “Publicly Available Standard”) has been developed in response to broad community and industry desire for a consistent method for assessing the lifecycle GHG emissions of goods and services. PAS 2050 recognises the potential for organisations to use this method to deliver improved understanding of the GHG emissions arising from their supply chains, and to provide a common basis for the comparison and communication of results arising from its use.

As the UK’s leading GHG verifier, CICS was invited by UKAS (the United Kingdom Accreditation Service) to sit on the PAS 2050 Development Committee to assist in developing a verification standard to which an organisation’s PAS 2050 footprint can be verified.

The development work is ongoing through 2009 and it is expected that CICS will be able to offer verification services for PAS 2050 from early 2010 onwards. CICS will have specialised PAS 2050 verifiers with a unique combination of:

• GHG verification expertise.
• Life cycle assessment (LCA) skills.
• Specific sector knowledge where appropriate.