Assurance Systems Development
What We Offer
SCS Standards develops broad-reaching standards that can help corporations, NGOs and industry associations drive sound environmental, social, and governance business practices across their entire footprint in order to mitigate climate impacts, improve worker health and safety, and benefit communities. We have facilitated the development of SCS and proprietary standards addressing responsible sourcing practices and life cycle impact reductions related to food and agriculture, water stewardship, climate change, forest management, indoor air quality, mining and jewelry, biofuels, circularity, and more. Our clients have established globally applicable standards for a wide variety of claims, such as Bio-based Material Content, Sustainable Sourcing, Traceability, Chain of Custody.
Contact us to find out more about our standards and how we can help your standard development needs.
The Value of Assurance Systems
An assurance system underpins a sustainability standard, in order to:
- provide truthfulness to claims
- ensure impartial assessment of the implementation of the standard
- provide reliable comparable data to measure and monitor the standard’s impacts and effectiveness
- uphold the credibility of any certification or verification standard