This document is specifically aimed at Oversight and Assurance Providers to ISEAL member schemes or other sustainability systems that have or are commencing on a process to align their certification of commodities and chains of custody models with emissions reporting good practices.

This document represents a short ‘start here’ level introduction to the ‘Accounting & Reporting the Emissions of Certified Commodities’ suite of guidance documents. There are four such introductory guides, for schemes (this document), certificate holders/applicants, assurance and oversight providers and buyers. It is recommended that each stakeholder group begins with their respective ‘start here’ document, followed by the general ‘Introductory Guidance’ document, which goes into more contextual detail and finally the ‘Guidance for Sustainability Systems to Design and Implement Credible Greenhouse Gas Reporting systems’