SGS is recognised as a global leader in the verification of greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental services. The SGS Climate Change Programme was established in 1997. Our expertise is based on the validation and verification of hundreds of greenhouse gas projects and inventories. You company, your shareholders and your stakeholders, need to be sure that your GHG emissions data is reliable. You can trust SGS.

The SGS Climate Change Programme offers:

• Validation of project design to ensure real, long-term and measurable emission reductions
• Verification of company and project monitoring systems and data to ensure that emissions and emission reductions are determined in a complete, consistent, comparable, accurate and transparent way
• Certification of emission reductions for registration and trading
• More than 200 competent, trained staff operating in the SGS network, with offices in over 1,000 locations in 140 countires, and a total of 48,000 employees
• Solid experience in offering services to all kinds of clients - ranging from the smallest through to the largest multi-site/multi-country emitters, and from simple through to complex and diverse project portfolios
• Procedures that are designed to build trust and deliver a high level of confidence in SGS' opinion, irrespective of its final decision