GHG Verification - Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals

The worldwide chemical industry is already acclaimed as one of the leading sectors in reducing the emissions from its manufacturing processes. Highly energy intensive, the industry has both adopted voluntary measures and adhered to legislation to cut greenhouse gas emissions. CICS offers GHG verification for regulatory, legislative, sustainability and corporate social responsibility reporting purposes.

Our verifiers visit chemical manufacturing plants ranging from relatively small installations making speciality chemicals, through to huge petrochemical plants. Being skilled chemists and engineers, they understand how these sites operate and are also aware of the additional health and safety requirements when on site, thus reducing your risk.

CICS verifiers operating in the chemicals sector understand process flow and energy accounting and can quickly get to grips with even the most complex sites, saving you time and effort in teaching them basic principles.

We offer the following services:

  • EU ETS Verification
    If your business falls under the EU ETS Scheme, we can independently verify your GHG emissions data quickly and efficiently. We offer baseline emissions verification, new entrant reserve (NER) verification, annual verification, across single or multi sites.

  • CSR
    Independent verification of your CSR Report is a discriminator of real commitment and action and satisfies your stakeholders’ demands for accuracy, validity, materiality, transparency.

  • CCA
    CICS provides independent verification of your GHG emissions – a necessity for those chemical and petrochemical producers who wish to trade surplus CCA credits.

  • Carbon Footprinting
    For clients who are performing carbon footprinting, including distribution, which can involve complex arrangements with hauliers and/or owned transportation, CICS verifiers can help you unravel the complexities of calculating emissions to the client's "gate".

  • PAS 2050
    CICS is only one of four verification bodies in the UK that is accredited to verify against the PAS 2050 Standard (for the carbon footprinting of goods and services across the full lifecycle) and the associated Code of Good Practice by UKAS (United Kingdom Accreditation Service).