Marta smiled. “Because Nordic Retail’s auditors will ask: Where’s your boundary documentation? How did you handle biogenic CO₂ from the coffee beans? Show us your data quality management. Without ISO 14064, our claim is a press release. With it, our claim is evidence.”
By the end, she had a template for an and a Verification Statement —the exact documents Nordic Retail Group wanted. iso 14064 course
“Marta,” he said, sliding a report across the table, “our biggest client, Nordic Retail Group , just sent this. They say that starting next year, they will only buy from suppliers who publicly report their greenhouse gas emissions. They want ‘ISO 14064-1 verified data.’ What does that even mean?” Marta smiled
The Carbon Whisperer
“Your electricity invoice is from a shared building. How do you allocate emissions to your office space?” the verifier character asked. Show us your data quality management
Marta was the new sustainability coordinator at Brew & Bean , a mid-sized coffee roasting company. Her boss, Leo, was a pragmatic operations director who loved spreadsheets but hated “fluffy green promises.”
Marta learned to answer: “We use floor area as an allocation factor, per ISO 14064-1 clause 5.3, and we document the calculation.”