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Independent GHG verification · In our 20th year
Verified carbon reporting, with a free trial run first.
We independently verify your Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3 emissions to ISO 14064-3. When you commission your verification, we start with a free readiness review, so your team sees our findings privately and has time to act on them before the audit that counts.
Free readiness review when you commission verification.
It is not built into your fee. Your verification costs the same with or without it, this year and in future years.
One year at a time, with no multi-year contract. Renewals rise by no more than inflation.
We are the verification body behind a British Government and Environment Agency approved carbon certification scheme. Our audits have been trusted by FTSE-listed corporations, NHS trusts, police forces and central government departments.
What makes us different
Know where you stand before the formal audit.
Verification findings usually arrive at the end of the process, when it is too late to fix anything in this reporting cycle. We look at your data, methods and evidence early, using part-year or last year’s information, and give you documented findings while there is still time to act.
Confidence you’re ready
A private trial run shows what is solid and what needs attention. Your team puts it right on its own terms, so the formal verification holds no surprises.
Start sooner, without the scramble
Commission verification before your inventory is finished. Your team gets our feedback months ahead and acts on it at its own pace, not in the week before the deadline.
Fewer late requests
Gaps in the evidence are found early, when they are easy to fill, so there is no last-minute chase for missing records and fewer slips made in a hurry.
Why is it free?
Because a team that starts early has a smoother verification, and a client whose first year goes well stays with us. We treat the review as an investment in a long relationship, so we do not recover its cost through your fee.
How it works
Three steps to a verified footprint.
Agree the scope and fee
We agree your reporting period, boundaries, the emissions to be covered, the assurance level and your deadline, then confirm the fee.
Your free readiness review
We review the information you already have, months before your deadline, and give your team private feedback to act on at its own pace.
Formal verification
We verify the complete reporting period, an independent reviewer checks our work, and you receive your verification statement and findings report.
Your reporting needs
Verification that fits the reason you report.
CDP disclosure
Verification of ISO 14064-1 footprints to ISO 14064-3, a standard accepted by CDP. Our statements have been accepted in previous CDP disclosures. Verification for CDP
Scope 3 emissions
Verification of the methods, assumptions and evidence behind your value-chain categories, from selected categories to your full Scope 3 inventory. Scope 3 verification
Who carries the risk
Your name is on the numbers.
Directors approve the report your carbon figures appear in. Sustainability and energy managers stake their credibility on them. Without independent verification, nobody outside the business has checked the factors, the boundaries, the gases or the supplier data behind them.
We find it. You fix it. The board sees the verified result.
Our free readiness review tests the data you already have. The findings go only to your team, and points you resolve at that stage never appear in your verification report.
And the standards keep moving, with GHG Protocol revisions and new joint standards with ISO on the way. Keeping up is our full-time job, so it doesn’t have to be yours.
Footprint fatigue
Are you counting carbon, or cutting it?
Most sustainability managers came into the job to lead change. Many now spend their days building footprints, answering questions about footprints and chasing evidence before deadlines. We call it footprint fatigue, and verification should not add to it.
Rushed work leads to slips, slips lead to more requests, and good people leave. We take the pressure out: start early, deal with one verifier who knows your data, and get our requests once, not in a stream in the final week.
Read about footprint fatigueLess counting.
More cutting.
- Feedback months before the deadline, to act on at your own pace
- One verifier, from your first call to your statement
- Fair renewals, so you never have to start again with someone new
Since 2007 · In our 20th year
Trusted by organisations that cannot afford to get it wrong.
Since 2007 we have verified emissions for FTSE-listed financial institutions, NHS bodies, police forces, local and central government, international charities and global manufacturers.
Why clients verify“It’s worth far more than what you pay, in reputational value.”
Clare Swift, Sustainability Manager, Northumbria Police
- AudiAutomotiveaudi.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- CapitaBusiness servicescapita.com (opens in a new tab)
- Eric Wright GroupConstructionericwright.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- University of ManchesterEducationmanchester.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
- SC JohnsonConsumer productsscjohnson.com (opens in a new tab)
- Standard LifeFinancial servicesstandardlife.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Department for EducationCentral governmentgov.uk/dfe (opens in a new tab)
- Nottinghamshire HealthcareHealthcarenottinghamshirehealthcare.nhs.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Mines Advisory GroupNGO and charitiesmaginternational.org (opens in a new tab)
- CA TechnologiesInformation servicesca.com (opens in a new tab)
- Aggregate IndustriesMining and extractionaggregate.com (opens in a new tab)
- HiltonHospitality and leisurehilton.com (opens in a new tab)
- Walt Disney CompanyMedia and entertainmentthewaltdisneycompany.com (opens in a new tab)
- General ElectricManufacturingge.com (opens in a new tab)
- North East Ambulance ServiceEmergency servicesneas.nhs.uk (opens in a new tab)
- TotalEnergiesEnergy and utilitiestotalenergies.uk (opens in a new tab)
- AldiRetail and distributionaldi.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- National ExpressTransport and logisticsnationalexpress.com (opens in a new tab)
- VodafoneTelecommunicationsvodafone.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- BiffaWaste managementbiffa.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
What we deliver
Verification creates value for every stakeholder.
Verification strengthens your market position and delivers reputational benefits that your board, investors and customers will recognise. Here is what independent verification can do for your organisation.
Board assurance
Directors can approve your carbon disclosures knowing an independent verifier has tested the evidence first.
Data integrity
Independent review finds the calculation errors, boundary gaps and emission-factor issues many inventories carry undetected, reducing greenwashing risk at source.
Regulatory readiness
Stay ahead of tightening disclosure requirements. Independent assurance of emissions data is increasingly expected, and in some regimes required.
Market access
Strengthen tender responses and customer submissions. Buyers increasingly ask for verified emissions data, and some score it.
Investor confidence
Lenders and investors increasingly look for independently assured emissions data when assessing green finance and ESG performance.
Brand value
Turn carbon disclosure from a reputational risk into evidence you can stand behind.
Stakeholder trust
Talk to employees, communities and the public with claims that can be verified, not just defended.
Better decisions
Accurate data shows where your real reduction opportunities are, so investment goes where it makes a difference.
No lock-in
We don’t need a three-year contract to keep you.
Sign up one year at a time. Our clients stay because of the service, not the small print: our longest-standing clients have been with us for almost two decades, and they renew each year because they want to.
90%+
of our clients renew each year.
9 in 10
new clients come by recommendation: from an existing client, or from someone who worked with us before and brought us with them.
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salespeople. We don’t have a sales team: everyone you deal with is a technical specialist.
Free to start. Free to leave. Fair to stay.
Free to start
A free readiness review before your first verification. It is not built into your fee.
Free to leave
No multi-year contract and no discount that only works if you commit for three years. You agree your verification one year at a time.
Fair to stay
If your scope stays the same, your renewal fee will rise by no more than CPI inflation. And if you have a written quotation for the same work, we will match it.
CPI is the 12-month Consumer Prices Index rate published by the Office for National Statistics for the month before your renewal. If your scope changes, for example more sites, additional Scope 3 categories or a higher level of assurance, we agree the new fee with you before any work begins.
Changing verifier costs your team time: a new verifier has to learn your boundaries, methods and data sources all over again. Price should never be the reason you leave. Our price promise
We answer to the evidence
Independent by design.
We are structurally and operationally independent. We do not sell consultancy or software, and we never verify an inventory we helped to prepare. We test the evidence and tell you plainly what we find.
We are also the verification body behind a carbon certification scheme approved by the British Government and the Environment Agency following extensive consultation with businesses, the public sector and a wide range of environmental groups.
What you receive
Clear findings and a statement you can use.
A clear plan
An agreed scope, timetable, assurance level and fee, with responsibilities set out before work begins.
Free readiness review
Documented early findings and time to act on them. It is free when you commission verification and is not added to your fee.
Verification statement
A formal statement setting out what was verified, against which criteria and to what level of assurance, with a findings report to help you improve next year.
Fair renewals
One year at a time, with no multi-year contract. If your scope stays the same, your renewal fee rises by no more than CPI inflation.
Start with a 20-minute conversation.
You will talk to a verifier, not a salesperson. Tell us why you report, which scopes you need verified and when you need the statement, and ask whatever you need to. You do not need a finished inventory. If you go ahead, the person you speak to leads your verification.
No obligation, and no sales pitch · See what we’ll discuss