Who Vouches for It

What this document is

The question left at the end of any certificate review is trust: who vouches for the fact that this points at a real reduction? The answer is that verification is not an audit of a certificate already issued — it is a precondition of issuing one. Working from the published announcements of 123Carbon, SCS Global Services, DP World and the SBTi standard, this report sets out where verification actually sits, which bodies keep appearing, and what has to exist before any of it applies.

Who reads it

• Shipper ESG and procurement
• Carriers and logistics providers
• Verification bodies
• Carbon consultancies

About this report

Not a translation. We read the primary sources ourselves and set out what they say. Quotations are short and carry their source and page number, and no figure appears that we could not confirm in the original.

Rights in the sources

Rights in the originals rest with their publishers.

Basis

This report is Logistics Tech Standard's analysis of the four sources below. It is not a translation.

What is not here

Undisclosed figures have not been filled in from secondary coverage — the certificate count and tonnes reduced in the MOL case are not given. A press release states what the announcing party says about its own procedures, not an independent assessment of them.

How we quote

Quotations are short and carry their source and date; no table or figure from a source has been reproduced. The companies and organisations cited have no contractual relationship with us, and no platform or verification body is recommended.

Who wrote this report, and why

Logistics Tech Standard (LTS) works on the carbon standards used in freight. This is not a translation — we researched and wrote it. Putting an international standard to work on real freight runs into places the standard itself does not describe.

Only what we could confirm is here; where we could not confirm something, we say so. Every source is named in the text.