Carbon Footprints for companies or products are an important and accepted approach to making the current status of environmental commitment and climate targets within the company transparent for customers and employees.
External verification of your GHG balance sheet ensures accurate reporting, improves your reputation and serves as proof of the credibility of your climate management.
In addition, a detailed review of the completeness and methodology used to determine your data provides you with a reliable basis for identifying your actual greenhouse gas sources (GHG sources).
Several internationally recognised regulations provide a basis for calculating and accounting for greenhouse gases. These uniform standards make emission calculations comparable and, above all, verifiable.
There are different ways to achieve different goals: you decide in which framework you want to be assessed and subsequently audited! In addition to verifying your carbon footprint in accordance with ISO 14064-1 or the GHG Protocol (Corporate Standard) or your product carbon footprint in accordance with ISO 14067 or the GHG Protocol (Product Standard), we also offer verification of calculation and accounting tools for both systems. We are happy to subject the calculation methodology and emission factors used to a stress test for conformity with the various requirements of the norms and standards.
GUTcert was one of the first testing bodies to be accredited by the German Accreditation Body (DAkkS) for the verification of corporate carbon footprints in accordance with ISO 14064-3 in 2013. Since 2024, we have also been accredited by DAkkS for the verification of product carbon footprints.
A detailed description of our audit process can be found here.
We calculate the cost of verifying your carbon footprint on an individual basis depending on the size and complexity of your company, the number of production sites, the complexity of the product, the data acquisition effort and the product portfolio.
Check which requirements already exist for integrating your climate reporting into an existing system, e.g. ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 50001 or EMAS: much of the required data may already have been collected as part of an energy management system. We have created a guide for integrating your energy management system, for example, which you can download here.
