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Sustainability
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Get the recognition you deserve for your sustainability efforts. Our experts can complete a FREE Gap Assessment and advise either:
- You qualify for certification, or
- What actions needed to qualify
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Brand Reputation
Third party Accreditation clearly demonstrates your environmental commitments to stakeholders
Increase Sales
Win and retain important contracts, meeting your clients sustainability & environmental requirements
Reduce Costs
Improve resource efficiency, saving costs on utility bills, carbon taxes and unnecessary waste
Sustainability
What is it?
The term sustainability originally comes from the concept of sustainable development, an idea introduced at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992.
Business sustainability is based on the principle that businesses use limited resources to meet today’s needs while ensuring that resources will be available to meet the needs of future generations.
- Saving Carbon & Energy
- Saving Water
- Saving Waste
These are the three pillars of Sustainability. For a business to be sustainable it needs to position itself to thrive now and in the future by managing its risks, being adaptable and recognising how it affects its stakeholders, society and the environment both now and in the longer-term. The 'Sustainability Standard' provide a framework to help achieve this.
Decade of Expertise
Our Clients
During the last Dacade our team has certified organisations from all sectors including:
The British Government, Police, NHS, Universities, Local Authorities & Major Private Sector Corporates.
Three Pillars of Sustainability
Carbon, Waste & Water
The Sustainability Standard rewards organisations who have taken action & made savings, in ALL three 'Pillars of Sustainability': Carbon, Waste & Water.
Carbon Saver Standard
The Carbon Saver Standard rewards organisations for reducing Carbon Emissions each year. It also provides an independent, third party verification of your footprint.
- Government Approved
- CDP Disclosure
- Mandatory Carbon Reporting & SECR
- Energy Savings
Waste Saver Standard
The Waste Saver Standard rewards organisations for reducing, re-using and recycling waste each year. Helping organisations promote their reputation & green credentials.
- Waste Reduction Strategies
- Waste heirarchies
- Waste Audits
- Engaging stakeholders
Water Saver Standard
The Water Saver Standard rewards organisations for reducing water consumption and disposal each year. It provides a robust, independend accreditation of your water management processes.
- Water Data Capture
- Regulatory Risk
- Legal Compliance
- Changing Employee Behaviours
Sustainability Standard
Only the best organisations strive to win the 'Sustainability Standard' by achiving all three standards, ie. CarbonSAVER, WasteSAVER and WaterSAVER.
- Independent Standards
- Third party verification for Annual Reports
- Help win contracts
- Deliver soft benefits, eg. attract & retain talent
Bronze, Silver & Gold
Rewarding Your Journey
Achieving Sustainability is a journey... The Sustainability Standard offers 3 levels: Bronze, Silver & Gold.
This tiered approach ensures that companies of all sizes and budgets can certify. Even those starting their carbon reduction journey can certify with the Bronze Standard, then upgrade to Silver or Gold depending on their customers or stakeholders needs.
The rules and methodology for achieving the Sustainability Standard™ are the same for Bronze, Silver and Gold. All measure Sustainability Metrics in the same way, but vary in the level of Sustainability Management and investments undertaken.
Bronze Standard
Sustainability efforts are reviewed against 5 criteria:-
- Policy
- Governance
- Accounting
- Monitoring
- Targets
Bronze Standard certification is subject to a 10% risk based audit.
Silver Standard
Sustainability efforts are reviewed against 7 criteria:-
- Policy
- Governance
- Accounting
- Monitoring
- Targets
- Training
- Sustainability Programmes
Silver Standard certification is subject to a 25% risk based audit.
Gold Standard
Sustainability efforts are reviewed against 10 criteria:-
- Policy
- Governance
- Accounting
- Monitoring
- Targets
- Training
- Sustainability Programmes
- Products & Services
- Investments
- External Reporting
Gold Standard certification is subject to a 100% risk based audit.
Accreditation
Benefits
As well as hard financial savings, the Sustainability Standard helps reduce regulatory risks and delivers reputational benefits all your stakeholders will appreciate.
The Board
Third party accreditation of your sustainability actions provides assurance that your organisation is on the right track
Customers
Win and retain important contracts. Customers can trust that your sustainability actions are truthful and open to scrutiny
Investors
An independent, third party accreditation reduces investor risks and demonstrates action beyond compliance
Employees
Achieving the Sustainability Standard™ can increase staff motivation and change wasteful behaviours
Brand Reputation
Government approved standard will demonstrate your commitment to improving sustainability and being externally verified
Sustainability Team
Benchmarks current achievements, recognises successes and helps identify opportunities for improvement
The Community
Demonstrate voluntary leadership on the Sustainability Agenda and being a 'Good Corporate Citizen' improving trust and confidence
Financial
And of course helping you save on both utility bills and 'Carbon Taxes'. On average our clients have saved £250,000 per annum
What our clients achieved
Savings
You can trust the Sustainable Standard Programme to deliver real financial savings and improved brand reputation. Approved by the Environment Agency as an equivalent scheme to the Carbon Trust Standard.
£ Cost Savings
£s Financial Savings
tCO2e Carbon Savings
Emissions from 3,000 cars
kWh Energy Savings
Power for 1,000 homes
% Carbon Savings
Average % reduction in Carbon Emissions
Average savings based on representative sample of over 60 clients.
Testimonials
What Our Clients Say
Our mission is to help organisations reduce their carbon emissions, save energy and become more sustainable.
But don't take our word for it... check out what our clients say...
Paul Turner
Sustainable Business Director - Lloyds Banking Group“ Achieving Carbon Saver Gold Standard neatly illustrates that we are on track to deliver our vision of being recognised as a leading environmentally responsible organisation – this is excellent news. "
Chris Barnes
Engineering Manager - ExCel London“ The Carbon Saver Gold Standard has improved our green credentials and helped highlight all the hard work we have been doing to reduce our energy consumption. Carbon Saver enabled us to verify that we are taking carbon emissions seriously. "
Rob Bradburn
Finance Director - NHS Blood and Transplant" We were delighted to work with Carbon Saver and gain their Gold Standard accreditation. This demonstrates a real commitment from NHS Blood and Transplant to continually reduce its impact on the environment. "
Andrew Whitehorn
Carbon Manager - Viridor PLC“ Carbon Saver was pragmatic in their approach. Having gone through the Carbon Saver Standard™ it motivated staff to become more energy aware. ”
Sandy Taylor
Head of Climate Change and Sustainability - Birmingham City Council“ Carbon Saver helped us to prioritise where our systems needed improvement and we are taking this forward. "
John Kost
Group SH&E Director - Capita PLC“ Can I also say how easy (to work with) Carbon Saver has been and all the staff who have been in contact with you have been complimentary. ”
Clare Swift
Sustainability Manager - Northumbria Police" It was a friendly, straightforward, personal service and because it was all electronic it made it much easier and less time consuming for me. It’s worth far more than what you pay, in reputational value. I would encourage any organisation to go for it. "
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Free Gap Assessment
Contact us today and get the recognition you deserve for your sustainability efforts.
Our experts will complete a FREE Gap Assessment and advise either:
- You qualify for certification, or
- What actions needed to qualify
With No Fees and No Catches, you have nothing to lose. Book your Free Gap Assessment Today...
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Delivering sustainability solutions for Government & the Private Sector
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OUR VISION AND MISSION
Our mission is to reward organisations who become more sustainable, saving Carbon, Water & Waste.
Trusted
Government approved accreditation, trusted by the biggest names in both the public and private sectors
Experts
For the last decade our team has been helping all sectors of the economy to save carbon, water and waste
Best Value
Simply straight forward pricing, no hidden fees and guaranteed lowest cost accreditation services
Our mission is to help organisations become more sustainable, reducing Carbon Emissions, Waste & Water.
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Carbon Verification Ltd
27 Old Gloucester Street
London
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+44 (0) 161 408 0590
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