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You Can Make a High Integrity Carbon Neutral Certification Claim

When a product achieves Carbon Neutrality, it means that it has caused zero impact towards climate change.

Products that are certified as carbon neutral undertake an audit and enter into a binding agreement to monitor the carbon footprint of their products and purchase carbon credits to offset remaining impacts.

What Does the Audit Include?

The audit, at a minimum, accounts for the cradle to consumer greenhouse gas emissions associated to their products. This includes the emissions from extraction of raw materials, the transportation, processing, freight, manufacture and freight to the point where the product is sold.

This typically represents the chain of control that a company has during the life-cycle of its products. Where an entity can control further steps (such as use, or disposal), then these steps will also be included in the life cycle assessment.

The audits follow the life-cycle measurement standards prescribed within ISO 14044 which is the group of international standards for life cycle assessment.

Companies that certify their products as carbon neutral under the NoCO2 certification program must assess changes to the carbon footprint of their products at the end of 12 months.

They must also offset the total emissions impact caused by their products through the purchase of carbon credits. This is how these companies can assert that their products are carbon neutral.

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