Vienna: UNIDO hosted a webinar introducing a joint ISO-UNIDO Guide, designed to clarify the ISO’s Technical Specification for assessing greenhouse gas emissions across the hydrogen value chain, ensuring professionals & policymakers can effectively understand and apply it.

Speakers from partner organization provided their insights on the technical specification and highlighted the value of the Guide: 

✅ Petra Schwager (UNIDO):

Hydrogen has a great potential to drive sustainable industrialization, particularly in developing and transition economies. Standards are crucial for enabling fair trade and ensuring no country is left behind in the hydrogen economy. 

✅ Noelia Garcia Nebra (ISO - International Organization for Standardization):

ISO TS 19870 enhances transparency and comparability across hydrogen markets while complementing other ISO standards on environmental assessment management. We welcome our collaboration with UNIDO. Our joint Guide introduces the technical specification, highlights its practical applications, ensuring that stakeholders across the value chain can understand the specification & implement its requirements effectively.

✅ Laurent ANTONI (International Partnership for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells in the Economy)

Carbon footprint is what matters for climate change, and that's why we need to be colour-blind and agree on how to effectively measure and quantify the emissions in the hydrogen supply chain.

✅ Maximilian Kūhn, PhD (Hydrogen Europe)

Aligned with European goals, the standard will likely play an important baseline for regulatory revisions, helping hydrogen markets thrive.

✅ Daria Nochevnik (Hydrogen Council):

The methodology builds on years of collaboration between experts around the world and represents a very hard-earned global consensus on GHG emissions assessment. It fosters investor confidence and supports certification schemes essential for bankable hydrogen projects. The Guide, unveiled today, ensures the standard is more accessible to the wider community of experts and professionals.

✅ Gabriel Lassery (UNIDO)

ISO TS 19870 is a very important tool for facilitating cross-border trade for hydrogen and its derivatives.

📍The Guide is available here➡️ Guide on ISO/TS 19870: Promoting the Global Standard for GHG Assessment in the Hydrogen Value Chain | UNIDO Green Hydrogen

The session underscored the importance of standardisation in unlocking hydrogen’s potential.  ISO TS 19870 serves as a vital benchmark, with future developments in the 19870 family planned to address specific elements of the hydrogen supply chain, such as the ISO 19870-1, focused on hydrogen production.