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Standards help people to understand each other.
Standards also help people to made make decisions with confidence and cooperate towards joint goals.
Climate change necessitates urgent action at a global scale.
Standards related to climate change and climate action make it easier for individuals, companies and states to make climate-informed decisions and will help all stakeholders coordinate their efforts.
There are already many standards of different types. We do not propose to develop even more standards to replace the ones already in use. Rather, we want to contribute to the development of a way in which we all can “speak the same language in the digital world” by allowing greater interoperability between these standards.
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- There are standards for measuring aspects of activities and processes. Let's call these measurement collection standards. These standard are focussed on measurements and concern things like the calibration and correct use and instruments. Application of these standards produce valid measurement data.
- There are other standards that standardise the transformation, evaluation and aggregation of data and metadata. We can call these calculation methodologies or data processing standards. Application of such standards produce produces indicators, metrics and indices with a well-defined meaning. Such outputs can bebe be tokenised.
- Another type of standard concerns claims or assertions about a entities or activities, such as the yearly emissions of a company or the climate impact of a project. We can call these reporting standards. Application of these standards yield standards compliant reports. The contents of such report reports can also be tokenised.
- There are also standards that concern the process of measuring, reporting and verifying itself and the persons who carry out such assessments. We can call these quality standards and verification or certification standards. Application of such standards produce certifications or assurance.
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