Corporates with Global Supply Chains
or companies navigating complex procurement, trade and production footprints.
Standards & Frameworks
With deep expertise, Kyoto Network is uniquely positioned to guide you through the right frameworks and registries for seamless certification and verification.
BS8555
A British Standard that provides a phased guide for implementing an environmental management system (EMS). It helps organizations measure and manage their direct environmental impacts, which is the foundation for generating internal emission reductions (insetting).
CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project)
A global non-profit that runs the world’s leading environmental disclosure system. It pushes companies and governments to report their environmental impact, including their use of carbon credits and progress on internal emission reductions (insetting).
CDSB (Climate Disclosure Standards Board)
Provides a framework for reporting environmental information in mainstream financial reports. It helps companies disclose climate-related risks, opportunities, and performance, which is essential for communicating both offsetting and insetting activities to investors.
EMAS (Eco-Management and Audit Scheme)
A premium EU voluntary environmental management instrument. It helps organizations evaluate, report, and improve their environmental performance, which is directly aligned with managing and reducing internal emissions for insetting.
GHGP – Greenhouse Gas Protocol
Provides the world's most widely used greenhouse gas accounting standards. It sets the framework for calculating corporate emissions (Scopes 1, 2, and 3) for insetting and also provides the accounting basis for many carbon credit project methodologies.
GRI (Global Reporting Initiative)
Provides the world's most widely used standards for sustainability reporting. Its guidelines include specific disclosures for an organization's emissions footprint (insetting) and its use of carbon credits (offsetting).
ISCC (International Sustainability and Carbon Certification)
A globally leading certification system for biomass, bioenergy, and circular economy materials. It provides a framework for verifying sustainability and greenhouse gas emissions along the entire supply chain, making it relevant for both insetting projects and certain types of carbon credit projects.
ISO 14001
The international standard for Environmental Management Systems (EMS). It provides a framework for an organization to manage its environmental responsibilities, forming the operational backbone for measuring and reducing its own emissions through insetting.
ISO 14064
An international standard specifying principles for quantifying and reporting greenhouse gas emissions and removals. It provides the core accounting foundation for both organizational inventories (insetting) and project-level carbon credit validation.
KNS – Kyoto Network Standard
The KNS is positioned as a high-integrity, formula-driven standard for the voluntary carbon market. Its key differentiator is the systematic integration of circular economy principles, ensuring that certified projects deliver verifiable emissions reductions alongside broader environmental and social co-benefits like resource efficiency, waste reduction, and community development. The standard is designed to future-proof projects and provide transparent validation of their holistic impact.
SBTi
(Science Based Targets initiative)
TCFD (Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures)
Provides a framework for companies to disclose climate-related financial risks and opportunities. This includes the strategic implications and financial impacts of both purchasing carbon credits and investing in internal decarbonization (insetting).
VERRA
Manages the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS), the world's most widely used voluntary greenhouse gas program. It focuses on certifying carbon credits from projects that reduce or remove emissions, which are then used for offsetting.