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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

With No Fees and No Catches, you have nothing to lose.

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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.

Carbon Saver Major Clients
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
www.carbonsaver.org

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
www.wastesaver.org

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
www.watersaver.org

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
www.sustainabilitystandard.org
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.

428007

£ Cost Savings

£s Financial Savings

tCO2e
2123

tCO2e Carbon Savings

Emissions from 3,000 cars

9481546

kWh Energy Savings

Power for 1,000 homes

5

% 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...

Accreditation Made Easy

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...

Contact us at europe@carbonverification.org

Delivering sustainability solutions for Government & the Private Sector

Delivering Value

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

Carbon Saver Audits
Sustainability Standard

Our mission is to help organisations become more sustainable, reducing Carbon Emissions, Waste & Water.

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www.wastesaver.org
www.watersaver.org

Our Contacts

Sustainability Standard
Carbon Verification Ltd
27 Old Gloucester Street
London
WC1N 3AX
+44 (0) 161 408 0590
europe@carbonverification.org