Climate Change: Services
Third Party Verification and Validation
Third party independent verification of GHG management activities provides additional assurance and credibility to corporate inventories, annual reports, or reduction projects, facilitating acceptance and use by stakeholders. Verification is a key step to gaining access to GHG markets and emission credits trading.
We offer a range of verification services, including: executing a “pre-audit” in preparation for an external audit; performing a full-scale validation/verification audit, complete with detailed assessment reports and suggestions for improvement; and emission credit evaluation.
First Environment is accredited by ANSI under ISO 14065:2007 and ISO 14064-3:2006 and GHG-PR-706 for the following Project Level Groups
1 – GHG emission reductions from fuel combustion
- Renewable Energy Production: (hydropower, biomass energy, biomass fuels, geothermal power, solar power, wind energy, fuel cell)
- Energy Efficiency Improvements: (fuel switching, waste heat recovery, cogeneration)
- Transportation
3 – Land Use and Forestry
- Sequestration of carbon due to afforestation, avoided deforestation, sustainable forest management, forest products)
- Soil carbon sequestration (no-till, grass cover)
5 – Livestock
- Methane Collection and Destruction
- Livestock and other anaerobic digester operations
- Agricultural methane emission reduction
- Agricultural carbon emission reduction
6 – Waste Handling and Disposal
- Capture and destruction of Landfill gas
- Capture and use of Landfill gas (biodigestion, aerobic treatment)
- Methane recovery in wastewater treatment
- Avoidance of methane production in wastewater treatment
- Coal mine methane
First Environment is accredited by ANSI under ISO 14065:2007 and ISO 14064-3:2006 and GHG-PR-706 for the following Organization Level Sectors
1 – General
Organizational inventories (corporate reporters) e.g. public administration, education, transport, storage and communications, information technology, state and local government
2 – Manufacturing
Food products, household goods, textiles, wood products, pulp and paper, basic metals and fabricated metal products, electrical equipment, machinery and equipment, electrical and optical equipment, aerospace, medical devices, rubber and plastic products
3 – Power Generation
Combustion of natural gas or coal, transmission and distribution
First Environment is also an accredited verifier of GHG inventories and projects under the following GHG protocols/programs:
Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS)
The Climate Registry (TCR)
California Climate Action Registry (CCAR)
California Air Resources Board (CARB)
Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX)
Greenhouse Gas Services (GE-AES)
American Carbon Registry (ACR)
Climate Action Reserve (CAR)
- Forest
- Landfill Project Reporting Protocol
- Livestock Project Reporting Protocol
- Organic Waste Digestion
- Ozone Depleting Substances
- Nitric Acid Production
- Coal Mine Methane
By improving the measurement and reporting of GHG emissions reductions, and by voluntarily reducing emissions, forward looking organizations are wisely embracing the idea that monitoring and reducing GHG emissions can prove to be beneficial – environmentally and financially.
In order to help our clients achieve their climate change goals accurately and effectively, First Environment offers Technical Support and Third Party Verification Services.
Technical Assistance & Consulting Services
First Environment assists clients in a range of industries – including power generation, oil and gas, waste management, and forestry products – with GHG management. Our technical support and consulting services are tailored to the specific needs of our clients. Some clients may need an internal protocol, training on data collection and GHG inventory, or assistance in setting their inventory boundaries.
Others may need support in writing a climate change policy, or identifying ineffective portions of their current policy. Whatever the conditions, First Environment’s understanding of the technical aspects of climate change data control facilitates the process. Once organized, our clients can accurately manage their records in order to pursue emission trading and other GHG opportunities.
