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ISO 14026:2017
Scope
This document provides principles, requirements and guidelines for footprint communications for products addressing areas of concern relating to the environment.
This document also provides requirements and guidelines for footprint communication programmes, as well as requirements for verification procedures.
This document does not address the quantification of a footprint, nor does it address the communication of footprints that are not related to the environment, e.g. footprints addressing social or economic issues. In particular, footprint communications relating to the economic and social dimensions of sustainable development are outside the scope of this document. Footprint communications relating to organizations are also outside the scope of this document.
ISO 14026:2017 Referenced Document
ISO 14020 Environmental statements and programmes for products — Principles and general requirements*, 2022-12-21 Update
ISO 14025:2006 Environmental labels and declarations - Type III environmental declarations - Principles and procedures
ISO 14044:2006 Environmental management - Life cycle assessment - Requirements and guidelines
ISO 14046 Environmental management - Water footprint - Principles, requirements and guidelines
ISO/IEC 17050-1 Conformity assessment — Supplier's declaration of conformity — Part 1: General requirements
ISO/TS 14027 Environmental labels and declarations - Development of product category rules
ISO/TS 14067 Greenhouse gases - Carbon footprint of products - Requirements and guidelines for quantification and communication
ISO/TS 14071 Environmental management - Life cycle assessment - Critical review processes and reviewer competencies: Additional requirements and guidelines to ISO 14044:2006
ISO 14026:2017 history
2017ISO 14026:2017 Environmental labels and declarations - Principles, requirements and guidelines for communication of footprint information