Assurance & advice

Find validation and verification bodies and advisers. Check each provider’s stated scope with its source.

12 providers

A sustainability certification and verification firm, ANAB-accredited under ISO 14065, offering carbon offset project validation and verification among more than 100 programmes.

Carbon marketsForests & natureGlobal

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Bureau Veritas

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A global testing, inspection and certification group, accredited to validate and verify greenhouse-gas and carbon-credit projects.

Carbon marketsExtractives & mineralsGlobal

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TÜV SÜD

External

A global testing, inspection and certification group with more than two decades of emissions verification in regulated and voluntary markets; in July 2026 it acquired the carbon validation and verification body SustainCERT.

Carbon marketsEnergyGlobal

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Earthood

External

A Gurugram-based validation and verification body (Verra VVB ID 050), ANAB-accredited and approved by Verra for VCS, CCB, SD VISta and its Plastic Program.

Carbon marketsForests & natureGlobal South

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Aster Global

External

An accredited validation and verification body specialising in forestry, agriculture and land-use carbon projects.

Carbon marketsForests & natureGlobal

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SustainCert

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A Luxembourg-based validation and verification body specialising in carbon markets and digital MRV, acquired by TÜV SÜD in July 2026.

Carbon marketsCross-cuttingGlobal

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A non-profit offering certification, verification and capacity-building for sustainable land use, forestry and carbon.

Forests & natureAgriculture & landGlobal

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South Pole

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A climate project developer and advisory firm working across carbon-project development, finance and corporate strategy.

Carbon marketsForests & natureGlobal

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A Genoa-based validation and verification body (Verra VVB ID 005), accredited through the UNFCCC and approved by Verra for VCS, CCB and SD VISta.

Carbon marketsForests & natureEnergyGlobal

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AENOR CONFIA

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A Madrid-based validation and verification body (Verra VVB ID 024, formerly AENOR Internacional), ANAB-accredited and approved by Verra for VCS, CCB and SD VISta.

Carbon marketsForests & natureAgriculture & landLatin America & Caribbean

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4K Earth Sciences

External

A Bangalore-based validation and verification body (Verra VVB ID 054), ANAB-accredited and approved by Verra for VCS, CCB and SD VISta.

Carbon marketsEnergyAgriculture & landAsia-Pacific

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A Bengaluru-based validation and verification body (Verra VVB ID 048), ANAB-accredited and approved by Verra for VCS, CCB (since 2013), SD VISta and its Plastic Program.

Carbon marketsForests & natureAgriculture & landAsia-Pacific

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