SustainCERT
As of 2024, TÜV SÜD entered a strategic partnership with SustainCERT to develop and enhance their digital climate impact verification platform. This partnership combines TÜV SÜD’s world-class expertise in carbon verification with SustainCERT’s pioneering digital solutions to address the challenges of a rapidly growing carbon market.
The SustainCERT Platform is the first and only digital verification platform designed for Validation/Verification Bodies (VVBs). By leveraging the power of data science and Artificial Intelligence (AI), we aim to digitise key processes together. This transformation will improve the efficiency, transparency, and credibility of carbon verification, thereby ensuring greater integrity within carbon markets.
Why Digitising Verification is Crucial
Carbon offset projects are essential for curbing global emissions, but challenges like credibility, transparency, and trust persist. By adopting digital verification, TÜV SÜD and SustainCERT seek to address these issues, offering a more streamlined and reliable process for tracking carbon reductions.
By digitising the verification process, we are making the carbon market more efficient, cost-effective, and reliable. Key benefits include:
- Efficiency: Reducing time and costs associated with traditional verification methods.
- Transparency: Real-time data allows stakeholders to track the verification process and carbon credits.
- Credibility: Leveraging AI and data science to ensure verifiable, traceable, and accurate carbon reductions.
- Integrity: Strengthening the carbon market by reducing the risk of manipulation or counterfeiting, safeguarding the market’s reliability and impact.
This digital shift encourages broader participation from businesses and organisations, accelerating global efforts to achieve a sustainable, low-carbon future.
TÜV SÜD’s Expertise in Carbon Verification
TÜV SÜD has a robust history of leading global carbon offset programs and is an accredited third-party verifier for major standards like the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), Gold Standard, and VERRA. Our extensive experience spans the entire lifecycle of carbon projects — from validation to reporting.
Our partnership with SustainCERT leverages this deep expertise in carbon verification while enhancing the verification process with digital tools.
Why SustainCERT?
SustainCERT combines climate expertise with technology to develop innovative digital solutions that increase the speed and accuracy at which climate impact can be verified, unlocking scale in climate action.
