Verification Services - Public Sector (Hospitals, Universities, Government)

Whether to comply with legislation or to provide voluntary data for carbon footprinting or sustainability reporting purposes, local authorities and governmental bodies are increasingly making the move towards independent verification. CICS is the foremost verifier of hospitals and medical centres, with over 80 sites performed annually, and also university campuses, with over 30 sites verified.

Many public bodies now report their annual Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions and have them verified by CICS as being true and correct. Having this data independently verified by a third party shows commitment to providing accurate and transparent data. This in turn gives stakeholders (the public, NGOs, shareholders) confidence that the organization is taking action not only to measure emissions but also to reduce and mitigate them.

Public sector organizations are notoriously diverse and their structure can be very complex. Many operate far-flung infrastructures involving many buildings, employees and vehicles in one or more locations. CICS verifiers have the skills and experience both to unravel these complexities and to identify organizational and operational boundaries. CICS has a wealth of experience in applying robust sampling methods where there are multiple GHG source streams.

CICS has developed methodologies to enable even the largest organizations to be verified in a pragmatic way, with minimum time spent on-site, reducing your time and effort.

We offer the following services:

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

  • 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
    Accurately and consistently measuring your carbon footprint, by having it independently verified, can feed into your sustainability reporting and energy management strategies.

  • Training
    Learn how GHG schemes may affect your company.

  • PAS 2050
    CICS 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).