The EU has unveiled the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), a system of carbon pricing that will impose a fee on a carbon-intensive goods imported into the EU. According to the CBAM regulations, importers from the EU will have to disclose the upstream emissions in some imported goods and buy carbon certificates at a price […]
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Product Certification & Approvals
A solution for all your Inspection, Product Certification and Approvals Product testing is the ideal way to identify a product’s potential before the product development process. That eliminates the risk of developing undesirable products, which could be costly and time-consuming down the road. We partner with global agencies and offer a full range of testing […]
Cradle to Cradle Certification
Why is demonstrating environmental sustainability important? The Cradle to Cradle Certification Product Standard offers a pathway for product manufacturers to make measurable progress towards UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). The Cradle to Cradle Certified Product Standard is used by leading brands, retailers, designers, and manufacturers across the value chain to ensure that their goods have […]
Management System Certification
Formal Management System Certification – Burden or Benefit? GCAS offers independent, impartial assessment & certification and many of the leading companies choose us for their Management System Certification Assurance needs. GCAS ensures our assessments focus on the areas and issues that are important to client business, helping to improve performance and reduce business risk. GCAS offer […]
GHG Assurance Validation
GHG Assurance Validation – We offer a variety of validation and verification programs to help businesses add credibility and certainty to their GHG Assurance & Validation emission claims, as well as reports to back up their claims. In compliance with ISO 14064-3 standards, GCAS sustainability experts provide unbiased data validation and verification of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) […]
Advanced Zero Energy Design
Through Advanced Zero Energy Design, cities can become DRIVERS OF SUSTAINABILITY and increase ecological, social and economic capital. Why Zero Energy Design? Global warming and climate change are raising issues during the last couple of decades. Buildings including commercial and residential ones are major contributors to energy consumption. Zero Energy Design can be achieved by […]
Building Life Cycle Assessment
Building Life Cycle Assessment – Building and utilizing a structure for a long time has long-term effects on human health and the environment. The rapidly expanding science of life cycle assessment (LCA) illuminates these impacts in terms of their quality, severity, and length. Building generates environmental impacts throughout its life cycle. The various stages of […]
Environmental Product Declarations
EPD is a verified and registered document that communicates transparent & comparable information about the life-cycle environmental impact of a product. The EPD System is a global programme for environmental declarations based on the ISO 14040/14044, ISO 14025, EN 15804 or ISO 21930 standards. Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) are Eco-labels that display data of predetermined environmental […]
Net Zero Solutions
Net Zero Solutions – Governments, businesses, and other organizations are increasingly recognizing that the physical hazards connected with climate change will continue to grow unless the world cuts greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and offsets any residual emissions with equal GHG removals from the atmosphere. To accomplish our climate change goals, all new buildings must be […]