BSI Standards Solutions is leading the development of a Publicly Available Specification (PAS) for a method for measuring the embodied greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from goods and services at the request of Defra (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) and the Carbon Trust.
The development of PAS 2050 commenced in June 2007, when the Carbon Trust and Defra approached BSI Standards Solutions to oversee the development of this specification. Since this time, the development of PAS 2050 has benefited significantly from an extensive stakeholder engagement process, which has included a first consultation in October 2007 and a second consultation in March 2008 (Download the Consultation statement), input from expert work groups, support via commissioned research, and insights arising from testing the draft standard with pilot companies.
Following the latest consultation on PAS 2050 (which closed on 28 March 2008) and a meeting of the PAS 2050 Steering Group (the body overseeing the development of the PAS), the project plan has been updated and the new publication date for the specification is now September/early October 2008. Currently, the latest draft of PAS 2050 is being revised in accordance with the results from the consultation and the additional technical work carried out by the Carbon Trust.
These web pages provide information on PAS 2050.
