Organisation
Avoided Carbon Emissions Certification
Verified Impact Beyond Your Footprint
The Avoided Emissions certification recognises organisations that reduce global emissions outside their own footprint by enabling low-carbon solutions, technologies, or services. This certification verifies that your offerings directly help others reduce their emissions, a powerful form of climate leadership that goes beyond internal reductions.
Avoided Emissions are not offsets. They are real-world, measurable impacts your organisation enables for customers, users, or markets, and this certification provides the third-party assurance needed to communicate that contribution with confidence.
Who Is This For?
- Clean tech, renewable energy, or SaaS providers
- Infrastructure and mobility solutions that displace higher-carbon systems
- Financial and service models that accelerate low-carbon transitions
- Any organisation enabling others to reduce their emissions through verified means
Key Requirements
- Baseline Scenario Definition: Clear definition of what would have happened without your product, service, or activity (the “business-as-usual” case)
- Comparative Lifecycle Assessment: Demonstrate avoided emissions through ISO- and GHG Protocol-compliant analysis
- Functional Equivalence: Ensure your offering performs the same or better than the conventional alternative
- Data Quality & Uncertainty Analysis: Quantitative uncertainty evaluation of all inputs and results
- Transparent Reporting: Public disclosure of methodology, baseline assumptions, and verified results
Benefits for Your Organisation
- Climate Leadership: Demonstrate how your organisation is enabling decarbonisation beyond your own walls
- Market Differentiation: Showcase your solutions as part of the global net zero transition
- Investor & Stakeholder Appeal: Position yourself as a climate enabler, not just a compliant operator
- Narrative Strength: Turn your carbon impact story into a leadership message
- Eligibility for Product or Service-Level Certification: Supports aligned claims at the offering level
Validity and Recertification
Avoided Emissions Certification is valid for two years, with recertification requiring updated avoided emissions calculations, current market data, and review of any changes to methodology or baseline assumptions.
Certification Pathways
