ACCREDITATIONS
AND APPROVALS

JAS-ANZ: The Joint Accreditation System of Australia and New Zealand (JAS-ANZ) commonly known as JASANZ (pronounced JAZZ ans) helps markets work better by providing internationally recognised accreditation services that create economic benefit.

JAS-ANZ is a mark of quality and reliability to assess whether organisations’ management systems, products and people conform to quality standards.

EIACI: Emirates International Accreditation Center (EIAC) is the national accreditation body for the United Arab Emirates, responsible for assessing the competence and capabilities of organisations that provide certification, testing, inspection and calibration services.

Emirates International Accreditation Centre has accredited KBS CERTIFICATION SERVICES LIMITED in accordance with the requirements of ISO/IEC 17021-1:2015 – Conformity assessment – Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of management systems and ISO/TS 22003:2013 to undertake the certification in the field of Food Safety Management System ISO 22000:2018.

Highfield International offers UK regulated and international qualifications and accredit training programmes specifically designed for delivery outside of the UK. Its qualifications and supporting resources cover multiple subject areas including catering, manufacturing, retail, education, construction, hospitality, leisure among others.

KBS is a registered centre for Highfield approved training. KBS registered Centre number is 23311 and is authorized to provide Highfield Qualifications approved training programs.

CQI-IRCA: The CQI is the professional body for experts in improving product, project and service quality. For more than 100 years, it has been championing organisational excellence by setting professional standards for quality management in the UK and globally.

The International Register of Certificated Auditors (IRCA), as a division of CQI, develops and evaluates and registers management system auditor / auditor training programs and provides globally recognized qualifications.

CQI | IRCA is an effective network-based mechanism with various specialties for IRCA management system auditors / auditors to support the development of competence necessary for practicing quality as a leader of quality professionals.

KBS Certification Services Limited is a CQI | IRCA accredited Training Partner to present:

• PR315: EMS ISO 14001:2015 Lead Auditor
• PR373: ISMS ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Lead Auditor
• PR366: EnMS ISO 50001:2018 Lead Auditor
• PR363: BCMS ISO 22301:2019 Lead Auditor
• PR328: QMS ISO 9001:2015 Lead Auditor
• PR359: FSMS ISO 22000:2018 Lead Auditor
• PR357: OHSMS ISO 45001:2018 Lead Auditor
• PT236: QMS ISO 9001:2015 Internal Auditor
• PR375: FSSC 22000 Version 6 Lead Auditor

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) under the aegis of The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), defined in Article 12 of the Protocol, allowed a country with an emission-reduction or emission-limitation commitment under the Kyoto Protocol (Annex B Party) to implement an emission-reduction project in developing countries. Such projects have been earning saleable certified emission reduction (CER) credits, each equivalent to one tonne of CO2, counted towards meeting the Kyoto targets of the Buyer Country.

CDM has been the first global, environmental investment and credit scheme of its kind, providing a standardized emissions offset instrument, CERs.

In fact KBS Certification Services Limited is the First Organization from the Indian Subcontinent to have been accredited by UNFCCC back in the year 2011. 

Registered Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project activities that would have had active crediting periods as of January 1, 2021 i.e., upon the end of Second Commitment Period under Kyoto Protocol are eligible to transition to the Article 6.4 mechanism of the Paris Agreement. The deadline for submitting the request for transitioning all Project Activities or Programme of Activities (excluding afforestation and reforestation projects) from CDM to Article 6.4 Mechanism also known as Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism was 31st December 2023. The deadline for submitting the request for transitioning afforestation and reforestation projects from CDM to Article 6.4 Mechanism however is 31st December 2025.

Article 6.4 of the Paris Agreement establishes the Article 6.4 mechanism, a market-based instrument that countries can voluntarily use to trade credits from emission reduction and removal projects. Under the mechanism, reducing emission levels in one country can be used by another country to fulfill its climate target, Nationally Determined Contribution.

Article 6.4 Mechanism aka Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism is the successor of Clean Development Mechanism.

The National Accreditation Board for Certification Bodies provides accreditation to Inspection, Certification and Validation & Verification Bodies based on assessment of their competence as per the Boards’ criteria and in accordance with International Standards and Guidelines. NABCB is a member of International Accreditation Forum (IAF), International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC), and Asia Pacific Accreditation Cooperation (APAC) as well as signatory to their MLAs / MRAs.

NABCB has confirmed that KBS Certification Services Limited complies with NABCB Accreditation Criteria for Validation & Verification Bodies (ISO/IEC 17029:2019, ISO 14065:2020, ISO 14064-3:2019 and ISO 14066:2011) to carry out Validation & Verification.

The Global Carbon Council (GCC), is the first international carbon credit and sustainable development program, based in the Global South. It was established (as Global Carbon Trust) by the Gulf Organization for Research and Development (GORD) in 2016.

The GCC Program contributes to a more sustainable and low-carbon future, by registering high-quality projects from around the world that have demonstrated their additionality in the reduction or removal of greenhouse gases GHG) emissions, while ensuring that project construction and operations do not cause any net-harm to the environment and society.

SOCIALCARBON is a Standard developed by the Ecologica Institute that certifies carbon reduction projects for their contributions to sustainable development.

AccountAbility is a global consulting and standards firm that works with businesses, investors, governments, and multi-lateral organizations to achieve opportunities, advance responsible business practices, and transform their long-term performance.

The CTCN is the operational arm of the UNFCCC Technology Mechanism, hosted by the UN Environment Programme and the UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). The Centre promotes the accelerated transfer of environmentally sound technologies for low carbon and climate resilient development at the request of developing countries.

Verra is a global leader helping to tackle the world’s most intractable environmental and social challenges by developing and managing standards that help the private sector, countries, and civil society achieve ambitious sustainable development and climate action goals.

Bureau of Energy Efficiency does empanelment of ESCOs through a process of grading carried out by SEBI Accredited rating agencies CRISIL/ CARE Advisory Research & Training Ltd/ICRA Analytics Ltd. indicating capability in implementation of energy efficiency projects through performance contracting based on availability of technical manpower, financial strength, market position etc. Currently, 127 ESCOs are empaneled by BEE.

Gold Standard for the Global Goals is a standard designed to accelerate progress toward climate security and sustainable development. The standard enables initiatives to quantify, certify and maximize their impacts toward climate security and the Sustainable Development Goals, while enhanced safeguards, holistic project design, management of trade-offs and local stakeholder engagement ensure Gold Standard continues to deliver the highest levels of environmental and social integrity.

GLOBAL EMISSION STANDARD is an international voluntary carbon certification program, which offers Greenhouse Gas Removal or Reduction Projects the registration and certification of carbon credits generated by such projects.

The International Carbon Registry (ICR) provides electronic registration of climate projects and issuances of ICR carbon credits (ICCs). ICR also acts as a platform for transferring carbon credits to organizations aiming to offset emissions effectively and transparently. ICR’s mission is to unlock and scale up climate actions through carbon markets to help limit climate change, decarbonize the global economy and achieve net-zero.

Open Forest Protocol develops an open source forestation projects platform to transparently measure, verify, and fund forestation projects.

Cercarbono supports results achieved by climate change mitigation projects focused on removing greenhouse gases (GHG) or reducing GHG emissions, and which contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, in line with the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement.

CDP pioneered climate disclosure at the turn of the millennium. Founded in the knowledge that transparency drives action, CDP convinced 35 forward-looking investors to make a simple request to companies: disclose your emissions data so we can make smarter decisions.

Now with the world’s largest, most comprehensive dataset on environmental action, the insights that CDP holds empower investors, companies, cities, and national and regional governments to make Earth-positive decisions.

The Universal Carbon Registry (UCR) Standard and Platform aims to introduce better carbonomics with the next-generation model of mining voluntary non-compliance carbon credits from a wide range of green projects that is far more efficient, faster, cheaper, de-centralized in transfer and convenient for every small green project owner aiming to decarbonize the economy.

The UCR, issues voluntary non-compliance carbon credits called carbon offset units (CoUs), to projects that result in the destruction, avoidance or reduction of GHG emissions in the atmosphere, and to certain carbon sequestration initiatives. UCR has designed and reset the eligibility criteria to reward sustainable development, with rules that are standardized and facilitates carbon finance/capital flows in the traditional as well as emerging smart contract conversion (CoU Token) tokenomics post issuance of the carbon credits on the registry.

ProClima is a programme that certifies and registers greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation projects for agroforestry, transportation, waste and energy sectors at the international level, seeking to enhance the growth of climate change mitigation projects. ProClima develops carbon standards and quantification methodologies, incorporating best practices and ensuring regulatory compliance during projects’ registration and certification process. ProClima seeks to participates in joint initiatives that can stimulate actions that favour the conservation of the world’s mountain ecosystems and the quality of life of their populations. From the programme, ProClima developed the methodology “Quantification of the reduction of GHG emissions or removals of sectoral projects for GHG mitigation: Activities that prevent the change of land use in high mountain ecosystems.” It establishes procedures, models, parameters and data to quantify the reduction of GHG emissions that are attributable to activities that prevent the change of land use in páramo ecosystems.