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Global Energy Up is an independent certification body for management systems and a validation and verification body for greenhouse-gas information. We audit and decide; we do not consult.
Most organizations do not arrive with a standard number. They arrive with a question that a buyer, a lender or a regulator has already asked. We verify the answer — at the agreed level of assurance, against the applicable standard, with a written opinion that states what was examined.
ISO 14064-1Your annual emissions statement examined at source: organizational and reporting boundaries, completeness of Scope 1, 2 and 3 sources, activity data, emission factors, calculation logic and the evidence trail behind each figure.
ISO 14064-2Validation looks forward at the baseline, additionality and monitoring plan. Verification looks back at what the monitoring data actually supports for the reductions and removals reported.
ISO 14067Functional or declared unit, system boundary, allocation, primary and secondary data, the calculation model and the exact wording of the product claim.
ISO 14068-1The whole sequence behind the claim: footprint quantification, commitment and reduction pathway, reductions achieved, and the quality and retirement of the carbon credits used.
Every validation and verification follows the same sequence under ISO/IEC 17029:2019. The decision is always taken by someone who did not take part in the engagement.
You describe the claim, its boundary, the standard and who will rely on it.
7.2We confirm scope, competence, impartiality and feasibility — and accept or decline in writing.
7.2Objective, scope, criteria, level of assurance, materiality and timeline are fixed in the contract.
7.3Strategic analysis, risk assessment and an evidence-gathering plan; the team is appointed.
7.4Site visit where required, data tests, recalculation; findings are raised and must be resolved.
7.5A reviewer who was not on the team checks the evidence behind the conclusion.
7.6An authorised person outside the team decides; the statement states the opinion and what was examined.
7.7 – 7.8New facts that affect the statement are assessed and may lead to its revision.
7.9
An unverified number is a claim. A verified number is evidence.
We verify GHG statements and product claims and validate project plans, evaluating evidence against the applicable standard at the agreed level of assurance and materiality, and issue a written opinion that states what was examined and what was not.
We operate to ISO/IEC 17029:2019 and ISO 14065:2020, with competence requirements under ISO 14066:2023.
Verification and certification are different conformity-assessment activities under different standards. Each is contracted, performed and decided separately — even when the same client needs both — and a decision in one never influences the other.
A verifier that helps build the claim cannot give an independent opinion on it. These limits apply to every engagement.
Start from who will use the statement and what they asked. A claim about the organization falls under ISO 14064-1, a project under ISO 14064-2, a product under ISO 14067 and a carbon-neutrality claim under ISO 14068-1. We confirm the programme at pre-engagement, before the quotation.
Validation assesses the assumptions, limitations and methods behind a claim about future activity, such as a project plan. Verification assesses historical data and information against the agreed criteria.
No. Preparing what we then verify would create a self-review threat to impartiality. The inventory must be prepared by your organization or by a party independent of us.
Limited or reasonable. The intended user of the statement — the programme, regulator or buyer — usually sets it. Reasonable assurance needs more evidence and more verification time; we set out both options and their consequences, and the choice is yours.
Yes. If material misstatements remain uncorrected, the opinion is modified or adverse. If the evidence needed is not made available, we can withdraw from the engagement.
