Balance CO2
BalanceCO2 Verification Services
BalanceCO2 offers a wide range of services geared towards green house Gas emissions and General Environmental Consulting. BalanceCO2 brings with it a combined experience of 45+ years in Environmental Consulting and 5+ years of Green House Gas Advisory and Project Development. Our team experts come from various backgrounds bringing with them expertise in multiple fields and varied geographical locations. We currently provide services to project originating in 4 different continents and are still expanding.
Balance CO2 services are backed by a strong infrastructure and dedicated personnel with strong expertise in specialized fields. Our non-competence policy makes us serve all our clients in a secular way without over-stepping each other’s business interests. This along with our timely completion of projects makes us the No.1 choice for provision of environmental services for companies. BalanceCO2 offers services in variety of sectors including but not limiting to
- Renewable Energy
- Landfil Management
- Waste Water Management
- Energy Efficiency
- A forestation and Reforestation
Core Service Lines
BalanceCO2 has developed significant experience and international recognition in the field of Climate Change markets. We provide thirdparty Validation and Verification services, under the International Standards Organization ISO 14064-3 standard. ISO 14064 is recognized by the Canadian Standards Association (CSA), Alberta Protocol, Voluntary Carbon Standard and other frameworks around the world, to both validate and verify emission reduction projects. BalanceCO2 has acquired extensive experience from Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects over the last 5 years. BalanceCO2’s project development activities are based on a comprehensive understanding of greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction principles, sustainable infrastructures, project based and entity level based carbon foot print management, carbon asset transaction management, and understanding of GHG quantification and verification programs such as United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) protocol, Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS), Gold Standard, Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), California Climate Action Reserve (CCAR), Canadian Standards Association (CSA), and ISO 14064
Outside Canada
BalanceCO2 provides both advisory and project development services in climate change and end-to-end consulting services from inception through development to management of Carbon Asset Transactions in CDM, VCS and other standards and protocol. BalanceCO2 has also been active in taking projects through the validation and verification process adopted by the Kyoto Protocol’s CDM, which produces compliance offset credits rather than voluntary offset credits. BalanceCO2’s role in the CDM process has been that of a project developer and also as a facilitator with validation/verification auditing companies in taking the project through the CDM registration process.
Services in Canada
In Canada, BalanceCO2 specifically focuses on providing validation and verification services to Canadian companies and other parties’ responsible for GHG emission reduction projects anywhere in the world. In particular, BalanceCO2 is well poised to leverage its experience in Ontario, Canada and exposure to compliance based CDM projects and voluntary verified emission reduction (VER) projects in the world. In effect, it provides ISO14064 related services to validate and verify GHG Emission Reduction off-sets in the waste management and renewable energy sectors. BalanceCO2 is listed as a verifier under the CSA offset program and the Alberta carbon offset solutions program.
Safety and Ethical Standard
BalanceCO2 practices ISO14000 guidelines for its operations, complying with environmental, health and safety (EH&S) requirements. It requires its staff and consultants contracted to undertake field visits to follow safety measures in the interest of the client being served for the purpose of site visit, and its own member’s safety. The staff of BalanceCO2 is committed to displaying high ethical standards and professionalism during client interactions. BalanceCO2 uses a self-declaration process whereby members and contractors of BalanceCO2 declare and can certify that there is no conflict of interest by any member of the verification team. If a conflict of interest is discovered with any team member, then the affected team member will withdrawal themselves from the verification project.
Email System, Record Management & Reporting Model
BalanceCO2 has an established domain and maintains a secure Email Server. All correspondences through email and physical mail are captured to ensure a trail for review, providing transparency of communication between BalanceCO2 staff, client and other stakeholders of the verification activities. Similarly a centralized process for record management and reporting model is followed by BalanceCO2. All working paper documents related to the verification will be backed up and stored by BalanceCO2 for a period of seven (7) years from the issuance of verification report. During the verification process, BalanceCO2 procedures will provide assurance of transparent decision making, devoid of conflict of interest through a self-declaration process by members and contractors of BalanceCO2, and use of pre-determined sign-off and approval process between members of the assessment team.
Quality Assurance and Professional care
The verification methodology deployed by BalanceCO2 for its finding and reporting will ensure Quality Assurance and professional care. The role of Technical Reviewer in reviewing the GHG assertion and the consensual process used in the methodology will provide the adequate risk mitigation, to meet the level of assurance required in its Verification Statement.