GFA reduces CO2 footprint of air travel

Climate-friendly traveling is one of our basic principles. However, occasional air travel cannot be completely avoided in a globally positioned business operation. For this reason, GFA Certification GmbH compensates for CO2  emissions from air travel by the employees. For this purpose, certificates of the Project Nicaforest High Impact Reforestation Program have been acquired for 2022. The project protects the remaining patches of native vegetation and creates additional conservation areas on the banks of rivers and other watersheds. […]

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BLE recognition for SURE certification

After the already existing SURE recognition, GFA Certification GmbH has now also been recognized by the Federal Institute for Agriculture and Food (BLE) as an examining body for the SURE system and thus meets all requirements against the background of RED II and the recently  published  BioStrom-NachVO. […]

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https://www.gfa-cert.com/en/types-of-certification/sure-certification/

Background:

With the new version of the Directive on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources (2018/2001/EC – RED II), the share of bioenergy to cover our energy needs will increase significantly in the future.

In order to ensure that the biomass used for this purpose has been produced sustainably, the European Member States have agreed on criteria that must in future be adhered to and documented by all economic operators who use biomass or biogas to generate electricity or heat.

Voluntary certification schemes such as SURE are considered an objective and reliable way to document compliance with these RED II criteria. For this purpose, the systems are audited and recognized by the EU Commission in order to ensure full compliance with the RED II requirements and to guarantee a high quality and transparency of the sustainability certification.

SURE was founded to obtain this EU recognition and to offer economic participants in the biomass and biogas market a practicable system to demonstrate compliance with the requirements of RED II in a transparent, resilient and legally secure manner.

GFA Certification GmbH supports smallholder project in Malaysia

Through the Forum for Sustainable Palm Oil (FONAP), GFA Certification GmbH supports a smallholder project in Malaysia with the aim of establishing ecologically sustainable cultivation methods for oil palms and expanding an innovative traceability system for the quantities traded. […]

Recognition as a certification body for the SURE-EU system

With the new version of the Directive on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources (2018/2001/EC – RED II), the share of bioenergy to cover our energy needs will increase significantly in the future. […]

In order to ensure that the biomass used for this purpose has been produced sustainably, the European Member States have agreed on criteria that must in future be adhered to and documented by all economic operators who use biomass or biogas to generate electricity or heat.

Voluntary certification schemes such as SURE are considered an objective and reliable way to document compliance with these RED II criteria. For this purpose, the systems are audited and recognized by the EU Commission in order to ensure full compliance with the RED II requirements and to guarantee a high quality and transparency of the sustainability certification.

SURE was founded to obtain this EU recognition and to offer economic participants in the biomass and biogas market a practicable system to demonstrate compliance with the requirements of RED II in a transparent, resilient and legally secure manner.

GFA Certification GmbH has taken the first step towards recognition as a certification body by the system owner Sustainable Resources Verification GmbH and will in future offer certifications for biomass from forestry and agricultural uses as well as from waste and recycling.

https://www.sure-system.org/de/kontakt/kontaktdaten.html#zertifizierungsstellen

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