What should a GHG verification statement contain?

Who verified what, against which standard, at what level of assurance, and their conclusion. A usable statement names the organisation and period, the emissions verified by scope, the criteria such as ISO 14064-1 or the GHG Protocol, materiality, the verifier's independence, and any qualifications or exclusions.

Check for

• Organisation, sites and reporting period.
• Scope 1, Scope 2 and any Scope 3 totals verified.
• Standard and criteria used.
• Limited or reasonable assurance.
• Materiality threshold.
• Qualified or unqualified conclusion, with reasons.

Red flags

• No named verifier or accreditation.
• A conclusion with no stated level of assurance.
• Totals that differ from the report it refers to.

Sharing it

Send buyers the statement with the report it covers, so they can match the numbers.

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.

• What auditors check in assurance
• Limited vs reasonable assurance
• Who can verify in India

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

Last reviewed 2026-10-22.