Assurance of Environmental Reports
The ISO 14016:2020 is a part of the Environmental Management series of standards.
It provides principles and guidelines for assuring the environmental information an organization includes in its environmental reports.
This standard is applicable to assuring other types of reports in principle, provided that special consideration is paid to identifying the competence needed by the assurance provider.
The standard was published in June 2020 and is the first edition. The document was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 207, Environmental management, Subcommittee SC 2, Environmental auditing and related environmental investigations.
An environmental report includes voluntary and/or legally required disclosure by an organization of environmental information.
It can be presented as a stand-alone environmental report or as non-financial information in an organization’s annual report or be part of a sustainability report.