Verification Services - Education

Most higher educational institutions established voluntary goals for emissions reduction in recent years and are continuing to seek better ways to meet them and to measure progress.

But the stakes keep getting higher. Universities are looked to by both public sector and industry to set an example for sustainability. Rapidly rising energy costs and expanding operations and student bodies are also creating financial urgency for educational leaders to curb energy consumption. In some cases, government is adding to these pressures by tying funding to carbon consumption, as in the U.K., where the Higher Education Funding Organization has set a target for these institutions of 26% of 1990 carbon levels by 2020.

Our consultants are skilled in helping higher educational organizations with their carbon reduction strategies. We can recommend emissions management procedures and inventory documentation strategies that make carbon reduction more effective. And, when mandatory carbon reduction standards are established for this sector, our clients will be ready for independent verification.

We also offer the following verification services; however if we provide consulting services, we do not provide verification to the same client:

  • Verification
    Independent verification of Greenhouse Gas emissions for both voluntary and mandatory reporting schemes.

  • CSR
    Independent verification of your Corporate Social Responsibility 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 haulers and/or owned transportation, CICS verifiers can help you unravel the complexities of calculating emissions to the client's "gate." CICS works to international carbon footprinting standards ISO 14064 (Part 1) and the WRI / WBCSD GHG Protocol.

  • Training
    Learn how GHG schemes may affect your company.

  • PAS 2050
    CICS is accredited in the U.S. and the U.K. 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).