GHG Verification - Trade Associations

Many industries, and especially those involved with energy intensive processes, are part of trade associations and it is often these organisations that work on legislation with the regulators and negotiate on policy.

CICS verifiers have worked with trade associations from many different industries, from aerospace and automotive to construction, food and metals.

CICS offers the following expertise for the trade association sector:

  • Sampling methodologies – to cover sites of varying complexity, fuel mix, product mix, risk.
  • Geographic distribution of verifiers to reduce the travel costs (and carbon footprint) when verifying multiple sites within a group.
  • Central data verification to ensure efficiency, consistency and accuracy
  • For some regulated schemes - mainly for energy intensive industries - CICS works to perform verification on a sampled basis which provides a robust verification at reduced individual cost for the installation.

CICS' relationships with both the trade association head office and the people on the ground at site have made for a winning combination in this particular type of verification.

We work with trade associations throughout the following industries:

  • Aerospace
  • Automotive
  • Building products
  • Electronics
  • Dairy
  • Food
  • Glass
  • Metals

And provide the following services:

  • CCA
    CICS provides independent verification of your GHG emissions – a necessity for those organisations who wish to trade surplus CCA credits from current and historical milestone years. As the current CCA credits become a valuable trading commodity there is a strong incentive to have these independently verified.

  • 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 and split 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.

  • 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).