How long does a GHG verification take for a small company?

For a single-site MSME with organised records, often a few weeks from contract to statement: planning, document review, a site visit of a day or two, then questions and the report. Most delay comes from slow answers to the verifier's queries, not the verifier's own work.

The stages

1. Agreement on scope, criteria and level of assurance.
2. Document review and a sampling plan.
3. Site visit.
4. Findings and your responses.
5. Verification statement.

What speeds it up

• A complete inventory with methods written down.
• Invoices and logbooks filed by month.
• One person who can answer queries quickly.

Plan backwards

If a buyer needs the statement by a date, start at least two months earlier so a round of corrections does not miss it.

What Senseible does here

Senseible keeps every figure linked to its source invoice or bill with a fingerprint, so a verifier can trace a total back to the documents it came from.

• Verifier site visit
• Verification cost in India
• Limited vs reasonable assurance

Sources: ISO 14064-1, 14064-3 and 14067 (iso.org), GHG Protocol Corporate Standard, GHG Protocol standards

Last reviewed 2026-10-22.