PAS 2050

PAS 2050 , Specification for the assessment of the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of goods and services, with its main variants PAS 2050: 2008 and PAS 2050: 2011 is a standard for determining the CO ₂ balance of a product or an individual service.

The aim of PAS 2050 is to create a simple and comparable standard in order to make the CO ₂ footprint of different products and services comparable. PAS was created on the initiative of the Carbon Trust and the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs .

The standard was originally on 29 October 2008 by the British Standards Institution as first defined standard for the CO ₂ released footprint of a product. It has now spread around the world; numerous other standards, derivations and refinements emerged from PAS 2050.

A revision took place in 2011 that led to the new PAS 2050: 2011.

literature

• Graham Sinden: The contribution of PAS 2050 to the evolution of international greenhouse gas emission standards . In: The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment (2009), Volume 14, Issue 3, pp 195-203, doi : 10.1007 / s11367-009-0079-3 .

Web links

• Specification of PAS 2050: 2011 at the British Standards Institution