Verification Services - Trade Associations

Many industries, and especially those involved with energy intensive processes, are part of trade associations, who act on their members' behalf by negotiating on policy and by liaising with regulators on legislation. CICS' verifiers have worked with many trade associations in 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:

  • 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
    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".

  • 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).