CSA ISO 59020:25

CSA Preface This is the first edition of CSA ISO 59020, Circular economy — Measuring and assessing circularity performance, which is an adoption without modification of the identically titled ISO (International Organization for Standardization) Standard 59020 (first edition, 2024-05). For brevity, this Standard will be referred to as "CSA ISO 59020" throughout. This Standard was reviewed for Canadian adoption by the CSA Technical Committee on Circular Economy, under the jurisdiction of the CSA Strategic Steering Committee on Organizational Management and Sustainability, and has been formally approved by the Technical Committee. This Standard has been developed in compliance with Standards Council of Canada requirements for National Standards of Canada. It has been published as a National Standard of Canada by CSA Group. Scope This document specifies requirements and gives guidance to organizations for measuring and assessing a defined economic system to determine their circularity performance at a specific time. Measurement and assessment are performed by the collection and calculation of data with the help of mandatory and optional circularity indicators. This document provides a framework to guide users within organizations of all types and sizes through the measurement and assessment process, including system boundary setting and choice of indicators, as well as processing and interpreting data in a consistent and reproducible manner to generate meaningful and verifiable results. The framework is applicable to multiple levels of an economic system, ranging from regional, interorganizational and organizational to the product level. To measure and assess social, environmental and economic impacts that are caused by the actions of the organization to achieve circular goals and objectives, the document provides a list of complementary methods that can be used in addition to this document.