Carbon Neutral Certification
SCS offers complete service options to achieve carbon neutrality that include establishing your product carbon footprints and guidance on purchasing verified carbon offsets from credible sources that align with your company’s mission. Through SCS Certification Standard for Carbon Neutral, Entities, Buildings, Products, and Services or the internationally recognized carbon neutral standard, PAS 2060, companies can certify that they have successfully negated their carbon footprint. In addition, SCS is an approved assessor under the Carbon Neutral Protocol for those companies looking to become certified under the CARBON NEUTRAL® CERTIFICATION standard.
Carbon Neutral Certification Steps
Changing climate poses risks and opportunities for your business. Your carbon emissions reduction strategy should take both of these into account. Establishing your current carbon footprint is essential for identifying carbon emission reduction strategies. We can help in one of two ways – either by conducting a third-party assessment to calculate your footprint, or by verifying the footprint you have already generated. Either ISO14064-1 or the GHG Corporate Protocol footprinting methodologies should be used. SCS will assess your products and services using PAS 2050 life-cycle assessment. In addition, as a complementary service, SCS is uniquely positioned to help you gain an more comprehensive understanding of your carbon footprint using advanced protocols now being standardized under the American National Standards Institute process (LEO-SCS-002). Either way, all Scope 1 and 2 emissions, plus all Scope 3 emissions that contribute more than 1% of the total footprint, are included.
Benefits of Carbon Neutral Certification
- Reduce GHG emissions and associated environmental impacts
- Showcase organizational leadership to stakeholders
- Increase operational efficiency and related cost savings
- Proactively minimize climate risk to your organization
- Attract talent to your workforce
- Differentiate your company/product from competitors