Validation and Verification of Carbon Footprints
Reliable and credible evaluation of your greenhouse gas statements
The release of greenhouse gases (GHG) exacerbates the natural greenhouse effect and accelerates climate change, leading to far-reaching consequences for ecosystems and health. Companies therefore face the challenge of reducing their CO2 emissions and minimizing their environmental impact.
Greenhouse gas emissions can be determined at company, project and product level. This allows for weak points to be identified, reduction strategies to be developed and their effectiveness to be verified. We support you in fulfilling your societal role in terms of both climate protection and social responsibility.
An overview: Validation and verification of your greenhouse gas statement
Both validation and verification are important steps in the evaluation of GHG emissions. They ensure the integrity, credibility and informative value of such statements, and thereby contribute to more effective environmental management and sustainable development.
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The accounting of your greenhouse gas emissions can be carried out at company level (corporate carbon footprint) and at project level (project carbon footprint). Alternatively, a product carbon footprint for the entire life cycle or individual parts of it is also possible. In this context, ISO standards 14064 and 14067 provide a systematic approach.
We offer independent verifications of greenhouse gas statements at the company level in accordance with the ISO 14064-1 standard, based on ISO 14064-3. In this way, we create a trustworthy basis for transparent and comparable climate reporting and support you with the external communication of your sustainability strategy and the associated greenhouse gas projects.
Below you can find more about our structured approach to the verification and validation of carbon footprint statements. We also look at the standards in this international series, which provide companies with clear guidelines for the quantification and verification of greenhouse gas emissions.
Procedure for the verification and validation of your greenhouse gas statement
The following steps will lead you safely to the report:
1. Submission of documents
For example:
- Greenhouse gas statement including reporting and organizational limitations
- Quantification approach and model
- Greenhouse gas information management
2. Verification
Verification of calculations.
As part of a “desk review”, the submitted documents are checked for their completeness, plausibility and consistency with the established norms and standards.
3. (Remote) audit
Review of the data and information submitted in an on-site audit, alternatively “remotely” via video connection and screen sharing.
4. Audit report
Evaluation of the data based on the verification and validation standard and documentation of the results in an audit report.
5. Validation and verification statement
After the audit is completed, a positive or negative report (with non-conformities) is issued.
6. Re-verification
Annual verification for regular monitoring. A separate verification is required for the greenhouse gas statements of each reporting period. For this purpose, steps 1-5 described above are repeated.
The ISO 14064 standard series in detail
About ISO 14067
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We have already applied for accreditation as a verification body for carbon footprint reports at product level with the German Accreditation Body (DAkkS).