What is ISO 14033 about?
You may need to collect and analyze environmental data for a variety of reasons. This data would be useful only if you can accurately quantify and interpret it. ISO 14033 gives you guidelines to successfully do this. ISO 14033 helps you to gather this environmental data in a systematic manner. ISO 14033 walks you through the general principles, policies, strategies, and activities necessary to obtain quantitative environmental information for internal and/or external purposes.
ISO 14033 addresses issues related to defining, collecting, processing, interpreting, and presenting quantitative environmental information. ISO 14033 provides guidelines on how to establish accuracy, verifiability and reliability for the intended use. ISO 14033 uses proven and well-established approaches for the preparation of information adapted to the specific needs of environmental management.
Who is ISO 14033:2019 for?
ISO 14033 on environmental management is applies to all organizations, regardless of your size, type, location, structure, activities, products, level of development; and whether you have an environmental management system in place. ISO 14033 is useful for:
- All organizations looking to implement environmental management systems
- Leadership and top management in firms
- SMEs
ISO 14033 can be used by those who work with environmental quantitative information; including data acquisition, compilation, reporting and review.
Why should you use ISO 14033?
Every business has some impact on the environment. Proactively managing this involves collecting, quantifying, analyzing and using environmental data. You may take this information into account when making decisions about strategy, design, investment, or procurement. For this data to be useful, it needs to be measurable and accurate. ISO 14033 guidelines help you to quantify this data.
With ISO 14033 guidelines, you can do quantitative comparisons, quantitative identification of priority areas, numerical appraisal and comparison of risks. ISO 14033 supports quantitative comparisons by highlighting perspectives of the planning of the acquisition and provision that are relevant to achieving comparable quantitative results.
ISO 14033 guidelines range from planning, defining, and acquiring quantitative data to performing mathematical processing. They can be used to review life cycle assessments or environmental performance evaluations.
ISO 14033 gives guidelines for the systematic and methodical acquisition and review of quantitative environmental information and data about systems. ISO 14033 supports the application of standards and reports on environmental management.
ISO 14033 gives guidelines for organizations on the general principles, policies, strategies and activities necessary to obtain quantitative environmental information for internal and/or external purposes. Such purposes can be, for example, to establish inventory routines and support decision making related to environmental policies and strategies, aimed in particular at comparing quantitative environmental information. The information is related to organizations, activities, facilities, technologies and products.
What’s changed since the last update?
BS ISO 14033:2019 supersedes PD ISO/TS 14033:2012, which is withdrawn.
The main changes compared with the previous edition are as follows:
- Definitions, new examples of general application, extended explanations of data sources and categories of data, new topics in the ISO 14000 family of standards, such as financial applications, the relationship between quantitative environmental information and industrial digitalization, the relationship between systems analytical environmental data and metrological aspects of acquiring data and annexes D and E have been added
- Principles have been modified
- The framework has been elaborated