VERIFY THE IMPACT OF YOUR INSETTING INTERVENTIONS
Validate intervention designs and verify mitigation outcomes with independent assurance. SustainCERT helps organizations demonstrate the impact of their value chain interventions, supporting credible Scope 3 reporting, climate claims, and collaboration across the value chain.
Why independent verification matters
Companies are increasingly investing in insetting activities and value chain interventions to reduce Scope 3 emissions and make progress toward their climate commitments. As these interventions become a larger part of corporate climate strategies, organizations need credible evidence that they are delivering measurable greenhouse gas reductions and removals.
Independent validation and verification provide assurance that interventions are designed in line with recognized frameworks and that reported mitigation outcomes are supported by robust data and evidence.
Strengthen Scope 3 reporting
Rely on independently verified evidence to support Scope 3 reporting, decision-making, and climate claims, and demonstrate progress toward your climate commitments.
Build trust in your impact
Give customers, suppliers, investors, and other stakeholders greater confidence that the reported impact of your value chain interventions is backed by independent assurance.
Unlock value chain collaboration
Create a credible basis for collaboration and co-investment, helping partners work together to fund interventions and share their verified impact.
Independent validation and verification
SustainCERT provides independent validation and verification services for value chain interventions, helping organizations demonstrate that their insetting activities are designed effectively and deliver measurable climate impact.
Every assessment is conducted against SustainCERT's Rules & Requirements, which establish consistent requirements for intervention design, quantification of greenhouse gas reductions and removals, monitoring, data quality, and verification of mitigation outcomes.
Validation
Before implementing your project
Validation independently assesses whether an intervention has been appropriately designed to deliver its intended mitigation outcomes.
We review the project design, quantification methodology, monitoring approach, and supporting documentation against SustainCERT's Rules & Requirements.
Validation provides independent assurance that the intervention design meets the applicable requirements before implementation, helping identify issues early and reduce project design risk.
Verification
After implementing your project
Verification independently assesses the greenhouse gas reductions or removals achieved by an intervention.
We review monitoring data, supporting evidence, and project implementation against SustainCERT's Rules & Requirements before issuing a verification report and verified mitigation outcome statement.
Verified outcomes provide credible evidence to support Scope 3 reporting, climate claims, and further value chain collaboration.
Track verified impact on the Registry
The SustainCERT Registry provides a public record of validated and verified value chain interventions, creating transparency around who is implementing climate action, where interventions are taking place, and what outcomes have been independently verified.
Stakeholders can review an intervention's validation and verification status and access relevant supporting information, providing greater transparency and accountability around reported mitigation outcomes.
Issue Impact Units on the Carbon Management Platform
Verified mitigation outcomes can be issued as Impact Units on the SustainCERT Carbon Management Platform, enabling organizations to allocate and share the impact of value chain interventions with participating partners.
The Platform provides a centralized system to manage verified and unverified Scope 3 data. Organizations can issue, transfer, allocate, and co-claim Impact Units while maintaining safeguards against double counting and over-claiming.
This enables companies to collaborate with value chain partners, support co-investment in interventions, and translate verified mitigation outcomes into reporting-ready data.
READY TO VERIFY YOUR VALUE CHAIN INTERVENTIONS?
Whether you're designing a new value chain intervention or preparing to verify mitigation outcomes, our team can help you navigate the validation and verification process. Talk to our experts about your project and how independent assurance can support credible Scope 3 action.