At the ESF North America conference in Houston last week, SCS Global Services (SCS) unveiled Carbon Assured, a new third-party certification for the greenhouse gas intensity and reduction in carbon dioxide equivalents of a chemical material. 

Underpinned by SCS Standards’ SCS-115 Certification Standard for Product Carbon Intensity and Reduction for Chemicals and Co-products, the certification is for any organization that wishes to demonstrate and transparently communicate to customers and stakeholders both the carbon intensity and any carbon intensity reduction of their products containing chemicals.   

Carbon Assured has a baseline calculation method following ISO 14067:2018 and Together for Sustainability guidance. The standard recognizes five decarbonization pathways broken out in elective modules. The first three modules are now operational with the last two coming later this year. The levers are as follows: 

• Renewable Electricity  
• Bio feedstock and Recycled Content   
• Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage  
• Renewable Energy   
•  Asset Efficiency Improvement 

“This groundbreaking new certification is just what the chemicals industry, and the consumer-packaged goods industry that relies on them, have been waiting for,” said Scott Coye-Huhn, Vice President of SCS’ Energy, Biomaterials and Circularity division. “Giving organizations a credible way to message consumers about the work they are doing to decarbonize helps build brand loyalty.”  

Carbon Assured is for all members of the supply chain who produce or process gaseous, liquid, and solid fuels, chemicals, polymers or plastics and the products made from them. It also applies to operators and suppliers of products or solutions to reduce the carbon intensity of fossil materials such as renewable electricity, renewable hydrogen, biobased materials, recycled materials, and carbon-capture utilization and storage.  

Learn more about Carbon Assured Certification at www.scsglobalservices.com/services/carbon-assured.