With the following qualities, we are well-equipped to satisfy your organisations greenhouse gas validation, verification, and certification needs:
- We have personnel with broad greenhouse gas verification, certification, and industry knowledge.
- We have developed robust, risk-based audit systems combining financial audit rigour with technical/environmental expertise.
- We are accredited by the UNFCCC (the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change) as an operating entity under the Clean Development Mechanism(CDM) for the following sectors:
o energy industries (renewable and non-renewable sources)
o energy distribution
o energy demand
o manufacturing industries
o chemical industries
o construction
o transportation
o mining/mineral production
o metal production
o fugitive emissions from fuels (solid, oil, and gas)
o fugitive emissions from production and consumption of halocarbons and sulphur hexafluoride
o solvent use
o waste handling and disposal
o agriculture
- We are an approved certifier under the Californian Climate Action Registry and the Chicago Climate Exchange (landfill gas utilization projects) in the US.
- We are already accredited as an independent verifier of GHG emissions under the UK Emissions Trading Scheme.
- International organisations, governments, and industry use our greenhouse gas verification and certification experts.
GHG project references:
(You can download a more complete Project Reference List under "related info" on the right.)
- Co-designing the audit framework for the verification of BPs global GHG emissions in preparation for the launch of their internal trading system, in addition to on-going annual verification exercises.
- Development of guidelines for validation for the World Banks Prototype Carbon Fund, and the validation of several of their Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Join Implementation (JI) projects for companies worldwide.
- Assistance to the UNFCCC and OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) with regards to third party services for Climate Change projects.
- Design of the verification schemes for both the Greenhouse Challenge and the Greenhouse Friendly Products schemes in Australia.
- The design of the ERU-PT guidelines for the Dutch government.
- The development of the UK Emissions Trading Scheme.
- Validation and verification of several Climate Change projects for a number of European governments.
