Carbon verification allows companies to measure the amount of greenhouse gases emitted in the execution of their activities and thus demonstrate their commitment to reducing the effects of climate change.
It is essential to offer credibility and, assuring regulators, customers, employees, shareholders, potential investors, environmental groups, the media and even your competitors, the integrity, the degree of execution and the transparency of the calculation of the carbon. Any organization that actively measures or wants to establish procedures to arrive at its carbon, regardless of size, industry or location, could benefit from the insights and additional rigor that the VHC process brings.
Carbon Verification is relevant for any type of organization
Those organizations that already report CO2 and greenhouse gas emissions by mandatory regulations and wish to expand the scope to cover the entire organization
Those organizations that will soon be forced to adopt a mandatory system for CO2 and greenhouse gas emissions
Those organizations that voluntarily report to initiatives such as the Carbon Disclosure Project
Those smaller organizations looking for a manageable first step in promoting their contribution to the environment.
Carbon Verification of your organization by third parties offers significant added value for participating organizations. The implementation of the verification process will offer:
Credibility
Third-party verification offers a degree of credibility when it comes to reporting and publishing environmental information. This has implications for stakeholders such as employees, customers, stockbrokers, shareholders, and insurance companies.
Integrity
Independent verification provides assurances to interested parties that the verified data is faithfully represented, does not contain false material information, is consistent, and has been collected and analyzed in a transparent and reliable manner.
Transparency
Reporting externally verified greenhouse gas emissions data demonstrates your commitment to environmental accountability and transparency. A report on greenhouse gas emissions can form part of a public or corporate environmental or sustainability report and can be a step towards 'environmental governance'.
Consistency
Third party verification of emissions will ensure data is consistent with established protocols. We will ensure that your data is accurate for the purposes for which it was designed, using a proprietary process developed by our experienced greenhouse gas verification team.
Reliability
We have ensured that third-party verification will produce an accurate and reliable representation of emissions data. Through accreditation to EN 45011 from the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS), we have achieved significant independent professional endorsement of our verification process.
This will help you:
Manage reputational risks
You can be confident and reassure other stakeholders that your organization has considered the full scope of processes and emissions, and that the information is robust enough to withstand media scrutiny
Attract investment
Providing credible information to financial markets and insurance companies can enhance your organization's reputation, which will improve access to capital through valuations in the growing number of market indices such as FTSE4Good and DJSI
Differentiate yourself from the competition
By demonstrating that your organization takes environmental impact very seriously
Carbon Neutrality
Independently verifying your carbon will bolster your carbon neutrality claim with a proven estimate of best practices and ensure that you focus on the most efficient abatement programs and do not acquire more offset credits than are necessary to achieve carbon neutrality.