Responding to Climate Change
Committed to reducing your carbon footprint? Prove it. Your consumers and stakeholders won't trust anything less.
Today's consumers want you to do more than just talk about your commitment to reducing your impact on climate change. They want you to prove it. They want to know that they can place as much trust in your environmental claims as they can in your brand and service.
Impartial and technically robust assurance is essential to the credibility of your environmental claims and carbon emissions schemes. What better way to help deliver on your promises than to use LRQA's verification and assurance services to publicly demonstrate your company's commitment to improved environmental performance.
Services We Offer
Gain access to our worldwide expertise in:
- Supply chain assurance, where LRQA can help ensure your supply chain is efficient, effective, and fully aligned in delivering seamless operation.
- Sustainability report verification, emissions management services , and carbon performance analysis , where LRQA can help provide a true and transparent third party account of your business performance and activities, offering you credibility and an improved image, and offering your internal and external stakeholders, supply chain, and partners a measurable confidence in your organization.
- Environmental management systems assessments, where LRQA can help you manage and measurably improve your environmental performance against known international environmental management standards.
LRQA offers validation, post-validation, pre-verification and verification services for:
• Kyoto Protocol mechanisms: the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Join Implementation (JI)
• European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS)
• Japanese Voluntary Emissions Trading Scheme (JV ETS)
• ISO 14064: the standard for quantification, monitoring and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions relating to projects or organizations
• Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS)
• United Kingdom Emissions Trading Scheme (UK ETS)
• Gold Standard: the standard which recognizes projects which provide added benefits in terms of sustainability
At LRQA, we focus to help our clients assure their climate change stewardship strategies and assertions are verifiable and accurate. More importantly, we deliver impartial and technically robust opinions which are vital to the long term credibility and success of environmental, sustainability and emissions programs with clients, stakeholders and governments.
LRQA Climate Change History
Over the past 20 years, we have played a significant role in developing global standards and processes to help protect the environment.
In 1988 we developed the first Environmental Assurance audit process. Building on that expertise, we verified the first ever independently scrutinized environmental report in 1990 (Norsk Hydro UK Limited).
In 1995, LRQA became one of the first certification bodies to be awarded accreditation for the environmental management system standard, BS 7750. When ISO 14001 superseded BS 7750 in 1996, we were also one of the first to be accredited.
LRQA Thought Leadership Initiatives
Technical Expertise
Dr. Anne-Marie Warris, LRQA's expert on climate change and greenhouse gases, is currently authoring version two of the Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS), based on the policy decisions made by the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA), The Climate Group (TCG), The World Economic Forum (WEF) and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). The VCS will bring assurance and credibility to the voluntary carbon market, ensuring consumer confidence and innovation. Dr. Warris is the Vice Chair of the UK Emissions Trading Group, and is an industry expert on carbon emissions and the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). In addition, Dr. Warris is also the climate change section editor of www.businessassurance.com , where she offers insightful articles on relevant climate change topics.
Climate Change Podcasts & Blogs
We sponsor the www.businessassurance.com climate change podcast series. Each episode focuses on an issue relevant to the ongoing climate change debate, including emissions trading , carbon labeling , importance and role of verification. For a full list of all podcasts and transcripts, visit the climate change podcast section.
Latest Podcasts
California Climate Action Registry (CCAR) Podcast
Date: March 20, 2008
Website: http://businessassurance.com/california-climate-action-registry-ccar-podcast/
Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS) Podcast
Date: November 27, 2007
Website: http://businessassurance.com/interviews-voluntary-carbon-standard-group/
Anne-Marie Warris Introduces VCS 2007
Date: November 19, 2007
Website: http://businessassurance.com/anne-marie-warris-introduces-vcs-2007/
Global Research Projects
LRQA recently served as co-sponsor of What Assures Consumers ?, a global research report conducted by AccountAbility and Consumers International. The report showed that 70% of consumers want climate change claims made by businesses to be verified by independent third parties. It also showed that over 50% of consumers believe governments should be forcing businesses to phase out products that contribute to global warming.
Contact LRQA
LRQA technical experts and business advisors would like to discuss how can work with you on your climate change initiatives.
Contact LRQA today at: climate-change@lrqa.com
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