Reduced cost
No travel, accommodation or subsistence charges are passed on to you. Without the logistics of travelling audits, more of the time you pay for goes on the work that matters: examining your data.
Remote verification
A practical way to examine your evidence.
Remote verification is our usual approach where it can provide sufficient, appropriate evidence. We agree how information will be shared, who needs to be involved and whether any site visits are necessary.
Why remote
Three reasons to verify remotely.
Organisations in every sector are choosing remote verification, not because it is easier, but because it is more efficient without reducing the quality of assurance.
Faster scheduling
When the work is not tied to travel diaries, we can start sooner, fit around your team’s availability and turn reports round faster. For organisations with many sites, the time saved is substantial.
Lower emissions
Flying auditors around the country to check your carbon data adds to the very thing being measured. We verify remotely by default, so the assurance process itself carries the smallest possible footprint.
Convenience with a purpose
Plan the work around the evidence.
Document review
We examine inventories, calculations and source records through agreed secure channels.
Focused conversations
Interviews with the people responsible help us understand methods, controls and unusual results.
Targeted site work
Where remote methods are insufficient or the relevant programme requires a visit, we include appropriate on-site work.
Our approach
Remote work, to the same standards.
We carry out every verification, whether remote, on-site or a mix of both, in accordance with ISO 14064-3:2019 and within the framework set by ISO 14065:2020. Team competence requirements follow ISO 14066:2023.
Our remote methodology is aligned with ISO 14064-5:2026, which gives guidance on activities and techniques used remotely in verifying GHG statements. It sets out a risk-based way to decide when remote methods are appropriate, how to plan and carry them out, and how to report on their use. Where a reporting programme has its own rules, we identify and address them when planning the engagement.
The assurance level and evidence requirements stay the same as for any engagement. Remote delivery removes travel costs; the rest of the fee and the timetable depend on the work required.
ISO 14064-3:2019
Specification with guidance for the verification and validation of GHG statements. The main standard governing how we plan, carry out and report on verification, whether remote, on-site or hybrid.
ISO 14065:2020
General principles and requirements for bodies verifying environmental information, including impartiality, competence management and quality assurance.
ISO 14066:2023
Competence requirements for verification teams. Remote work needs additional skills in communication technology and remote evidence gathering, which we assess and maintain as part of team qualification.
ISO 14064-5:2026
Guidance on remote activities and techniques in verification. It provides the risk-based framework behind our remote method, covering pre-engagement evaluation, evidence-gathering planning and technology risk.
ISO’s description of remote verification guidance · Our verification programme
Planning together
What your team needs to arrange.
- An appropriate way to share documents and source records securely.
- Access to the calculations and methodology behind reported totals.
- Availability of relevant staff for scheduled discussions.
- Access to additional evidence or sites where the verification plan requires it.
CDP guidance
Site visits depend on the circumstances.
This excerpt from CDP’s 2023 guide is followed by an important qualification: some circumstances make a visit necessary or useful. We assess that during planning.
“Site visits are not necessary for all verifications”
Start with a 20-minute conversation.
You will talk to a verifier, not a salesperson. Tell us why you report, which scopes you need verified and when you need the statement, and ask whatever you need to. You do not need a finished inventory. If you go ahead, the person you speak to leads your verification.
No obligation, and no sales pitch