NCZ award and certification programme
As the carbon management specialists, we make understanding your full carbon footprint easy, helping you benchmark your emissions and then demonstrate your sustainability achievements.
Get NCZ certified: simple independent verification
Sustainability has never been more important and there is an ever-increasing expectation for businesses to understand and manage their environmental impact.
But knowing where to start isn’t easy, which is where NCZ comes in, as the carbon measurement specialists.
Clear milestones to guide your journey
Scope
Our Customer Success Team will work with you to accurately measure your scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions using our user-friendly carbon management platform.
Capture
This platform captures all your data and allows us to calculate your baseline carbon footprint (on an organisational, operational, and supply-chain level).
Report
Based on this, you’ll get a report detailing all your emissions, with targeted reduction measures that you can implement immediately and assess your progress year-on-year.
Certification
As you progress, you will receive certificates and media packs to demonstrate your achievements and share your commitment.
Straightforward journey
Moving up through the levels, provides you with a straightforward journey to embed sustainability into the very fabric of your business.
Independent verification
Each step offers you independent verification that internationally recognised calculations and reporting standards have been met, and industry best practice processes have been followed.
Certification and recognition
We also understand how important it is to market your sustainability commitment and achievements on your journey, therefore, you’ll also receive certificates and media packs at each stage, alongside your verified report.
The NCZ certification journey
To be an NCZ Blue awarded company, you will have:
- Signed up to the NCZ platform.
- Answered the company questionnaire in our FREE carbon calculator to enable us to model the emissions of your business using our NCZ benchmark framework.
To be an NCZ Silver awarded company, you will have:
- Answered the company questionnaire to enable NCZ to benchmark your company emissions.
- Received a self-certified organisational scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions report using inputted data and/ or the NCZ benchmark framework.
To be an NCZ Gold certified company, you will have met Silver award criteria plus:
- Measured, quantified, and reported on all company scope 1, 2 and 3 GHG emissions to ISO 14064 compliance.
- Set a baseline for all organisational and operational emissions for a targeted carbon reduction approach.
To be an NCZ Platinum certified company, you will have met Gold certification criteria plus:
- Established a supply-chain compliance programme.
- Agreed a carbon reduction plan/ targets and be achieving year on year reductions in emissions and supplier engagement.
Certification pricing and benefits
Explore the annual prices for each certification level below and what’s included. You can choose to pay upfront annually or spread the cost monthly, both options are shown.
Answer the NCZ carbon questionnaire.
Receive a scope 1, 2, and 3 questionnaire-based carbon footprint report.
Measure all company emissions through the NCZ data collection portal.
Weekly assistance from the NCZ customer success team to ensure accuracy and quality of data collection.
Receive a detailed ISO 14064 compliant NCZ carbon footprint report demonstrating full emissions breakdown.
Gain access to NCZ preferred supplier directory to find carbon aware suppliers to assist your decarbonisation journey.
Receive all benefits from Gold Certification level.
Access the supplier carbon collection assessment tool to begin accurately collecting your supply chain emissions.
Receive the NCZ supplier emissions breakdown report.
Measure a minimum 10% of supplier emissions and increase engagement year on year.
Achieve reductions in emissions year on year based on intensity metrics.
Explore your first step here
Join the growing number of businesses, embracing their environmental responsibility now.
Neutral Carbon Zone have been instrumental in helping us start to navigate our journey to Net Zero. They are extremely supportive and provide us with easy-to-understand solutions. Their customer service is exceptional, and any questions raised by us have been answered very quickly and satisfactorily. I am really excited to be working with them now and in the future.
My business, YorPower, have been working with Neutral Carbon Zone for about a year now and they are great. The knowledge they have on this subject is second to none and I have left every meeting with complete trust in their process and recommendations.
NCZ and Alan have really helped our business to understand what carbon impact we have been having, but more importantly are advising us on what measures we can take to reduce this. I wasn’t expecting the level of support NCZ gave; it’s been a really good experience having you there all the way. And the savings you’ve helped me achieve, for example, on my electricity bill, have been incredible…
I had a bit of hesitation to start with, because I thought it would take a bit too much of my time to collect the data. But you guys did a lot of that work using your technology, so once that was done, you made it a streamlined, pain-free process.
NCZ have a deep understanding of energy-related matters. Rianne and Alan are well-versed in various energy-saving strategies, technologies, and regulations. We now better understand our carbon impact and how we can reduce it.
From the minute I met the team, they have been superb, explained the process of carbon neutrality in full and helped on board my team. As a business that operate and measure customer service, I cannot fault their personal and knowledgeable approach.
NCZ have helped us understand our carbon impact and are working closely with us to reduce and ultimately realise our net zero 2030 ambitions.
At Corps, we live by our People, Planet and Purpose philosophy. We are committed to limiting the negative environmental impact of our operations and doing the right thing for our communities. NCZ help us do just that – their unique carbon management platform enables us to track our journey to Net Zero, and provides all the support and tools we need to monitor, report, and reduce our emissions effectively
