GHG Services
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Sustainability Manager, Life Cycle Services
Environmental Certification Services
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Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventory, Verification, and Reduction
Scientific Certification Systems combines 25 years of expertise in independent certification services with its experience in greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting to provide accurate and cost-effective measurement, reduction, and verification of GHG emissions. SCS also offers validation and verification of carbon offsets.
SCS has also been involved in the development of an innovative life-cycle assessment-based framework for GHG accounting and assessment that it uses to provide the most accurate GHG services available.
GHG Verification Services
SCS offers GHG verification services that ensure that your GHG emissions inventory is complete, accurate, and compliant to all the major reporting standards. SCS is accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to ISO 14065 for GHG Validation and Verification and to conduct GHG inventory verification services for members of The Climate Registry.
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Carbon Offset Validation and Verification
Scientific Certification Systems’ third-party validation and verification of your carbon offset project ensures that your emission reduction claims are credible, transparent and tradable in the international carbon market. As a recognized leader in environmental claims and certifications and an international pioneer in responsible forest management certification, SCS is the world’s leading verifier of forest and land-use carbon offset claims.
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SCS has verified carbon footprints and carbon offsets for The Nature Conservancy of California, The Pacific Forest Trust’s Van Eck Forest Project and the Conservation Fund’s Garcia River Project in Northern California; Ducks Unlimited’s Avoided Grassland Conversion Project in the Prairie Pothole Region of the Dakotas; and a Greenoxx forest project in Uruguay. Read more about SCS Carbon Projects.
GHG Emissions Inventory and Reduction
SCS provides clients with fast, cost-effective, and accurate GHG emissions inventories that are recognized by all the major climate registries. SCS guides your organization through the process of developing your baseline GHG footprint, identifies strategic opportunities for GHG emission reductions, and tracks reductions in subsequent years.
SCS offers standard GHG inventory as well as innovative Life-cycle Assessment (LCA)-based GHG inventory services.
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National Climate Standard
A new life-cycle assessment-based framework for GHG accounting and assessment has been developed to facilitate the work of climate registries, policy makers, business managers, life cycle assessment (LCA) practitioners and other stakeholders interested in evaluating the emissions of key GHGs associated with organizations, operations, and projects.
Under the “Draft American (ANSI) GHG Accounting Standard,” specific greenhouse gases (GHGs) are quantitatively linked to current and projected climate anomalies and exceedances of recognized climate thresholds. It is specifically designed to allow for the integration of up-to-date research, data and knowledge pertaining to climate change and to bridge the disciplines of climate science and life cycle assessment. It builds upon earlier GHG accounting protocols developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Under the framework, distinct GHG accounting protocols have been developed to address global, Arctic and Antarctic climate concerns.
