Rigorous Protocols for Credible Certification
Certification Protocols
Our updated NCS Footprinting Protocol (2025) provides clear certification requirements, ensuring impartiality and transparency in your sustainability claims. Independently audited against global standards, our protocol ensures consistent, high-quality verification.
Key Protocol Elements
- Comprehensive Scope Coverage: Full Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions accounting
- Data Quality Requirements: Progressive improvement in primary data collection
- Verification Methodology: Standardised approach using our digital Vero platform
- Reduction Pathways: Alignment with UN Stocktake targets (43% by 2030, 60% by 2035, 90% by 2050)
- Offsetting Standards: Rigorous criteria for carbon credit quality and verification
Certification-Specific Requirements
Each certification level builds upon the previous, creating a logical progression toward ambitious climate action. Our protocol details specific requirements for:
- Carbon Measured certification
- Lower Carbon certification
- Carbon Neutral certification
- Net Zero certification
All verification is conducted by impartial, external third-party experts, ensuring complete confidence in your certification claims.
Certification Categories
The Natural Carbon Solutions certification scheme enables environmental impacts to be credibly quantified. Our certifications are third-party audited and provide verification that is compliant with international standards and industry best practices.
Organisation
Certify your organisation's steps to Net Zero
Building
The UK's first Net Zero certification scheme for buildings
Product
Display your achievements with a carbon certification label
Event
The only Net Zero certification of it's kind for events
