Specification-led procurement ISO 14068-1

Don’t just buy carbon credits. Build a portfolio that withstands scrutiny.

Set the requirements, screen for quality, curate for impact, source at lowest cost, diversify risk, and deliver assurance-ready evidence.

210 / 360 · STRONG

Illustrative project · select a sector

Every portfolio, measured

17SDGs scored 360point scale 10exclusion gates 20integrity criteria 6impact domains
Start with the outcome

Set two requirements before a credit is sourced.

The right portfolio depends on what you need to say and the wider sustainable-development impact you want to fund. Both are agreed at the outset and become part of the specification.

Requirement 01 Integrity

The claim

Your intended claim determines which credits are eligible. Every carbon-carrying credit must qualify for that role individually.

  • Climate contribution / BVCM
  • Ongoing emissions responsibility
  • ISO 14068-1 carbon neutrality
  • Net-zero residual counterbalancing at achieved net zero

Requirement 02 Impact

The SDG impact

We score evidenced outcomes across all 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals and curate the portfolio to the Impact Band you select.

Limited
0–79
Moderate
80–159
Strong
160–239
Exceptional
240–360
Two different tests

Integrity and impact are not the same thing.

Separating them prevents attractive co-benefits from disguising a weak carbon credit — and lets stronger impact be built deliberately across the portfolio.

Integrity credit level

Does the carbon stand up?

Integrity concerns the credibility of the mitigation and whether the credit is suitable for the claim: additionality, quantification, verification, permanence and protection against double counting.

Managed as a floor. Every carbon-carrying credit must pass; integrity is never averaged.

Impact portfolio level

What else does it achieve?

Impact concerns evidenced benefits beyond carbon across the 17 SDGs — from livelihoods and health to ecosystems, infrastructure and institutions.

Managed as a scale. Qualifying projects are curated to deliver the contracted, tonne-weighted Impact Band.

Integrity screening / Credit level

Every carbon-carrying credit must clear the screen.

We apply a fixed, published screen to every project individually. A credit either qualifies for your intended claim or it is not offered.

ISO 14068-1 ISO/DIS 14060:2026 SBTi CNZS v2.0

10

Exclusion gates

Fundamental defects — including failures of additionality, title, safeguards, independent verification or protection against reversal — end the assessment. Strength elsewhere cannot compensate.

20

Evidence criteria

Every surviving project is examined across quantification, additionality, uniqueness, governance, permanence and safeguards. Each verdict is tied to evidence that can be cited.

Pass

One non-negotiable rule

No gate, no failed criterion, no gap on a Tier 1 criterion and sufficient evidence completeness. There is no partial or conditional pass.

A credit either qualifies for the claim you contracted, or it is not offered. There is no weaker version at a lower price.

The ten gates, the twenty criteria and the pass rule →

360° Impact / Seventeen goals

What 360° Impact measures

All seventeen goals, grouped into six domains of sixty points each. A project scores on the breadth of the outcomes it supports and on how strongly each one is evidenced.

210 / 360 · STRONG

Illustrative project · select a sector

Livelihoods
Poverty, hunger and decent work.
Ecosystems
Responsible consumption, oceans and land.
Equity and capability
Education and gender equality.
Health
Health, water and climate adaptation.
Energy and infrastructure
Clean energy, industry and settlements.
Rights and governance
Inequality, institutions and local partnership.

The wheel above is an illustrative project assessment, not a delivered portfolio. Each sector’s radius is that domain’s score out of sixty.

One Impact Band per claim-category portfolio

Each project carries its own score. The portfolio score is the average of those scores, weighted by the claimed tonnes allocated to each. Where an engagement supports more than one claim category, each is calculated and reported separately.

How a project is scored, goal by goal →

Impact is not an integrity rating

A higher score means broader outcomes with stronger evidence behind them. It does not make a lower-scoring credit less real: every carbon-carrying credit has already cleared the integrity floor.

A floor before a scale

Where the claim framework requires it, every activity must evidence at least one positive sustainable-development benefit. Averaging across the portfolio cannot cure a failure at activity level.

Claims / Eligibility ISO 14068-1

The four claims we build for

Claim eligibility is a threshold, not an average. Every carbon-carrying credit must support the contracted claim category on its own.

1 · Climate contribution

A voluntary contribution to verified mitigation beyond your value chain, disclosed separately from your greenhouse-gas inventory. It remains available to an organisation that has not yet built a reduction pathway, and does not by itself support a neutrality claim.

2 · Ongoing emissions responsibility

Responsibility taken for ongoing emissions alongside a science-based target, never instead of reducing them. The credits finance climate action but do not count as progress toward the target.

3 · ISO 14068-1 carbon neutrality

A defined subject’s unabated emissions for a stated period, addressed through contribution credits while science-based reduction continues. ISO/DIS 14060 recognises this as a route for directing near-term finance without jeopardising net-zero objectives.

4 · Net-zero residual counterbalancing Provisional

A removal-only portfolio counterbalancing residual emissions at achieved net zero, with durability matched to the claim route. It supports the removal component only, and does not establish that the organisation has reached net zero.

Where one engagement carries more than one claim, the tonnes, the ratio between them and a separate Impact Band are reported for each claim category.

What each claim supports, and where it stops →

Contributions beyond the value chain complement reductions within it. They never replace them.

How we curate / Four steps

How your portfolio gets built

Nothing is sourced before the specification is agreed. From there the work runs in four steps.

  1. Step 01

    Set the requirements

    We agree the claim category the credits must support and the Portfolio 360° Impact Band the finished portfolio must reach. Both become part of the specification.

  2. Step 02

    Screen for quality

    Every candidate project passes ten exclusion gates and twenty integrity and claim-eligibility criteria, including additionality, independent verification and protection against double counting.

  3. Step 03

    Curate for impact, cost and risk

    We combine qualifying projects, technologies, geographies and vintages so the mix reaches your band at the lowest available cost, without resting on any single approach.

  4. Step 04

    Retire and evidence

    Credits are retired in your organisation’s name. Assessments, calculations, transaction records and retirement evidence arrive as one pack, mapped to ISO 14068-1, ISO/DIS 14060 and the SBTi Corporate Net-Zero Standard v2.0.

You receive a portfolio built to your requirements and the complete record of the decision — not a certificate and a folder of links.

What you receive

The credits — and the case for choosing them.

A complete, assurance-ready record lets a competent third party follow the decision without reconstructing the work from a certificate and a folder of links.

Registry retirement records

Named retirement, serial numbers and client attribution.

Complete integrity screen

Verdict, evidence and reasoning for every criterion.

Project impact assessments

360° Impact scores and supporting evidence.

Portfolio calculation and wheel

The transparent arithmetic behind the contracted band.

Standards mapping

Mapped to the relevant ISO, SBTi and claim-route requirements.

Claim boundary statement

What the credits support, what they do not and where the claim stops.

Look inside the evidence pack →

Your successor can understand the decision. Your assurance provider can review it.

Lowest-cost delivery

Curation drives down cost.

Price is not used to decide what qualifies. It is used to find the most economical way to deliver the agreed requirement from credits that do.

How the price is set

01

No inventory to clear

We source against your requirements rather than steering you towards credits already owned.

02

Portfolio flexibility

Different qualifying projects can deliver the agreed impact more economically together.

03

Live market sourcing

Quotes reflect current availability, market prices and exchange rates — not a fixed catalogue.

04

One inclusive price

Credits, assessment, curation, retirement and the evidence pack are included.

Onboarding / Existing holdings

Already hold carbon credits?

We screen what you hold against your next claim and target band, then tell you what stays, what does not, and what to add. The diagnostic becomes the gap analysis for your first 360° Impact Portfolio.

  • Which holdings remain eligible for the intended claim, and which do not.
  • The current evidenced 360° Impact position, and the evidence gaps limiting it.
  • The additions or replacements needed to reach the target band.
  • The profile of what you hold across project, methodology, vintage, geography and prior claims.

The Existing Portfolio Diagnostic →

Duplication is a construction risk, not an integrity failure

Qualifying unretired holdings can be brought in, and we source around them to avoid unnecessary repetition. Double counting is separate and absolute: a credit already retired, cancelled or used for a prior claim is never reused.

Transparent by design

A method you can inspect.

The evidence pack supports independent review; it does not pretend to be independent assurance. Your assurance provider retains that role.

Published methodThe rules are visible before you buy.
No project-paid ratingsDevelopers do not pay us to assess projects.
No owned inventoryNo stock position influences selection.
Principal, not agentWe are your commercial counterparty.
Specification-ledDelivery is documented against what was agreed.

Who makes the judgements, and how the incentive is constrained →

Questions

Frequently asked

Does lower cost mean lower integrity?

No. Every carbon-carrying credit must qualify for the contracted claim category individually. Price is optimised only within the pool that qualifies.

Can a high-impact project compensate for a weak carbon credit?

No. Wider impact can be curated across the portfolio, but carbon integrity cannot be averaged. An ineligible credit cannot be carried by stronger projects elsewhere.

Is the evidence pack independent assurance?

No. It is an assurance-ready record of the assessment and procurement decision, structured to support independent review. The assurance conclusion remains with the independent provider.

Do you hold carbon credits in stock?

No. We source against your specification and have no inventory to clear.

Is there a multi-year commitment?

No. Each engagement stands alone. If you return in a subsequent year, we reassess your requirements, the available evidence and the market rather than repeating the previous purchase.

What if my specification cannot be sourced?

We do not lower the quality to complete the order. We explain the market position and the options: revising the price, taking a partial volume that still meets the specification, extending the sourcing period, or cancelling with the relevant funds returned.

Next step

Specify your portfolio.

Tell us the claim you need to support, the emissions volume and the SDG impact you want to deliver. We will define the requirement and quote the lowest-cost route.

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