New ISO documents published
In December 2017, ISO published two new documents that will be of interest to ALCAS members. The first is an amendment to the core LCA standard 14044:2006. Amendment 1 expands the scope of ISO 14044 to cover the quantification of footprints, and adds two new definitions: “footprint” and “area of concern”. Aspect-specific documents exist to cover the quantification of carbon footprints (ISO/TS14067) and water footprints (ISO14046). With the amendment to ISO14044 now published,