Corporate Carbon Footprint and Greenhouse Gases

Verified Carbon Footprint

Against the backdrop of international climate targets, industry faces ever-greater challenges in making an effective contribution to climate protection. Carbon management can offer a useful instrument, and traditionally consists of several steps:

• Creation of an individual carbon footprint (also known as a greenhouse gas inventory)
• Introduction of data and process management
• Development of a climate strategy
• Control based on performance indicators
• Internal/external communication

For organizations seeking assurance that their carbon footprint is determined according to the basic principles of relevance, completeness, consistency, transparency and accuracy, and also complies with the quantitative requirements of international standards on GHG inventory, TÜV NORD CERT offers “Organization Carbon Footprint” and “Product Carbon Footprint” verifications according to ISO 14064-3. In the case of “Organization Carbon Footprint”, we examine greenhouse gas emissions at the level of the organization, whilst in “Product Carbon Footprint” the focus is on greenhouse gas emissions at the product level.

Benefits of Carbon Footprint Verification

• You gain credibility for your carbon footprint claim, which benefits internal and external communication
• Your climate protection strategy is more transparent
• Possible climate protection measures are identified
• Your organization becomes more attractive to investors
• You rise up the rankings and ratings, for example with the CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project), which offers a global scoring system for environmental performance

TÜV NORD BUGARIA as verification body

TÜV NORD BUGARIA has comprehensive knowledge in the field of climate protection and can also offer national and international references. We are accredited by the German accreditation body, DAkkS in accordance with ISO 14065 for carbon footprint verification according to ISO 14064-3 and for verification under the European Emissions Trading Scheme. We are also accredited by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in order to validate and verify international climate protection projects.