Validation and Verification Body

A new VVB, built for the ground level.

Independent, affordable, field based validation and verification that returns the work to farmers, soil, and forests.

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Approved VVB

Global Carbon Standard

Module 13 (Waste Handling and Disposal) and Module 14 (Afforestation and Reforestation)

Operating since

2023

Field based audits across the Amazon and Atlantic

Accreditation

ISO 14065

GHG validation and verification bodies

Verification standard

ISO 14064-3

GHG assertion verification

Approved by

Global Carbon Standard

Modules 13 and 14

Our mission

Verification belongs where the carbon is.

Certification has long favoured large projects with the budget to handle complex processes. Smaller projects are often left out, even when their impact is real.

VeriClimate exists to change that. We provide validation and verification for smallholder forests, regenerative farms and community led restoration projects.

Approved under

Global Carbon Standard

VeriClimate is an approved Validation and Verification Body under the Global Carbon Standard, certified for two methodologies.

All standards

13Module

Waste Handling and Disposal

Validation and verification of waste sector projects, including methane avoidance, organic recovery, and circular waste management.

14Module

Afforestation and Reforestation

Validation and verification of afforestation, reforestation and agroforestry projects, with a focus on smallholder and community led work.

Field researcher walking into a misty Amazon forest at dawn

Founder

Pierre Minh Quang Trinh

VeriClimate was founded in 2023 by Pierre Minh Quang Trinh. Pierre has spent years working on disruptive CO₂ and reforestation projects across the Amazon and Atlantic regions.

His work spans methodology development, on the ground monitoring, and direct partnerships with smallholder communities. That experience informs every decision we make as a verification body.

Pierre leads VeriClimate together with a team of auditors, ecologists, and methodology experts. The combined experience keeps each carbon project audit accurate, independent, and held to the highest standard.

Independent auditor

Our first independent GCC auditor.

VeriClimate is proud to work with Dr. Tanzeem Fatima, our first independent auditor accredited to conduct validation and verification activities under the Global Carbon Standard.

Lead auditor

Dr. Tanzeem Fatima

PhD, Forestry. AFOLU and nature-based solutions

Dr. Tanzeem Fatima is an experienced carbon and sustainability professional, leading validation and verification activities for AFOLU and nature-based solutions projects under internationally recognised standards including VCS, Plan Vivo, GCC, Gold Standard, ART and ICR.

Her expertise covers Project Design Document (PDD) review, baseline and monitoring assessments, ex-ante and ex-post greenhouse gas emission reduction calculations, risk assessment, and compliance evaluation against applicable methodologies and certification requirements.

Certifications

ESGISO 14064-1ISO 14064-2ISO 14064-3ISO 14066ISO 14067

Strong working knowledge of carbon accounting, MRV systems, climate mitigation projects, and broader sustainability frameworks.

Academic partnership

Field research with the Federal University of Rondônia.

VeriClimate works in partnership with the Federal University of Rondônia (UNIR), a public Brazilian university located in the Amazon. The collaboration brings academic review and local scientific capacity to the field evidence behind each verification.

Joint field research

Permanent plots, biomass and soil sampling, biodiversity surveys.

Scientific review

Independent academic review of sampling design and methodology application.

Capacity building

Technicians and graduate students trained alongside our verification teams.

Academic collaboration strengthens the field evidence base. It is kept operationally separate from the verification opinion to safeguard impartiality under ISO 14065.