(C10.1) Indicate the verification/assurance status that applies to your reported emissions.
Change from last year
No change
Rationale
CDP supports verification and assurance as good practice in environmental reporting. This question gives data users further confidence in the accuracy of the data reported.
Response options
Please complete the following table:
| Scope | Verification/assurance status |
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Scope 1 |
Select from:
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Scope 2 (location-based or market-based) |
Select from:
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Scope 3 |
Select from:
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Requested content
General
- Please provide the verification/assurance status that applies to your Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 emissions. If you have had a proportion of your Scope 1, 2, and/or 3 emissions verified, please select the option that applies to these emissions; you will be given an opportunity to provide further details in the following questions.
- If verification/assurance is underway, or part of a biennial or triennial process: It is recognized that for some companies, the verification/assurance schedule is out of synchronization with the CDP disclosure process and therefore it is difficult to complete the verification/assurance process before the CDP deadline. In addition, verification/assurance processes may occur every two years (biennial verification) or every three years (triennial verification). Where this is the case, you should select “Verification or assurance process in place” and provide further information in the following questions.
- In the following questions you will be asked to provide evidence of any third-party verification that you have reported in this question. Companies are advised to verify that their evidence can demonstrate all of the requirements set by CDP before answering this question (e.g. by consulting with their verifier/assurer). Full details are provided in the guidance for questions C10.1a, C10.1b and C10.1c. If certain information requirements set by CDP are not met in the standard assurance statement provided by your verifier, CDP has produced a template that can be used in conjunction with the original assurance statement.
Scope 2
- If you operate in a region where you need to calculate both a location-based and a market-based figure to meet Scope 2 requirements, at this stage CDP only requires for you to verify one of these figures . However, in the interest of transparency, you are asked to disclose which of the two figures you have verified.
Additional information
Annual, biennial and triennial processes: If in the year the verification is completed (for example, Year 3), the data for all sources during the full cycle is verified (for example year 1, 2, and 3) the company can report 100% verification and should attach the verification statements that cover the emissions for all three years. This would be considered a triennial process. Graph of this situation is provided for clarity below (Figure 1).
Annual processes: Not all processes taking place over three years will be considered a triennial process. The graphs below illustrate annual processes, which should not be confused with triennial.
Figure 2 shows an annual process, where in the year the verification is completed (for example, Year 3) only the data for that year is verified.
Another example of a yearly process is when one third of the sources is verified every year (Figure 3). Under this scenario, in Year 3 only 1/3 of the sources are verified, with the second third verified in Year 2, and the remaining third in Year 1. The company should report this as a yearly process where 33% of the sources are verified.
Likewise, where a company has 1/3 of their emissions verified every year this is an annual process (Figure 4):
CDP regards verification/assurance as a process undertaken by an independent third party accredited to perform verification/assurance of the GHG emissions data. Please only state that you have had or are having verification/assurance carried out if it is by an independent third party accredited to perform verification/assurance of GHG data. CDP does not prescribe companies’ choice of specific verification/assurance providers. However, companies searching for a provider may want to consult our list of accredited verification partners: Learn more about CDP solution providers offering third party verification services here.
