# Can a GHG verification be done remotely, without a site visit?

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Partly. Document review and interviews can be remote, and many verifiers allow remote work for small sites with simple sources. Where emissions are material or meters need checking, expect a site visit, or a live video walk-through if the verifier's procedures accept it. The verifier decides.

## Usually remote

- Reviewing invoices, bills and calculation workings.
- Interviews with the people who prepared the data.

## Usually needs presence

- Checking meters, fuel tanks and weighbridges.
- Sites with process emissions or many sources.
- First verifications, where the verifier has never seen the site.

## Ask up front

Ask whether a remote visit is acceptable for your scope before you sign the engagement, so cost and timing are clear.

## What Senseible does here

Senseible keeps each figure tied to its invoice, factor and method version, so a verifier can trace any number back to the document it came from.

- [Site visit preparation](https://senseible.earth/answers/verifier-site-visit-what-to-prepare)
- [How long verification takes](https://senseible.earth/answers/how-long-does-ghg-verification-take)
- [Verification cost in India](https://senseible.earth/answers/ghg-inventory-verification-cost-india)

Sources: [ISO 14064-3, verification of greenhouse gas statements](https://www.iso.org), [GHG Protocol Corporate Standard](https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard)

Last reviewed 2026-10-22.