# Verdatir

> Verdatir is quality infrastructure for sustainability data: the trust layer of rules, evidence, review and lineage that lets environmental data be used without re-checking it. Its first product, an AI-assisted review engine, verifies Environmental Product Declarations, Product Carbon Footprints and supplier environmental data against EN 15804, ISO 14025, ISO 14067, PEF, PACT and CBAM, with a tamper-evident audit trail.

Verdatir AB, Stockholm, Sweden. Founder and CEO: Ketan Vaidya. Contact: support@verdatir.com.
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## Pages

- [Verdatir | Trust layer for sustainability data](https://verdatir.com/): Overview of Verdatir: quality infrastructure for sustainability data, and the review engine that is its first product.
- [Platform | One environmental intelligence review engine](https://verdatir.com/platform): The Verdatir platform: orchestration flow, verification workspace, tamper-evident lineage, cross-standard intelligence and live ecosystem signals.
- [Services | Verification and advisory](https://verdatir.com/services): Verdatir's enablement and implementation services alongside the platform.
- [Our vision](https://verdatir.com/vision): Verdatir's mission: make environmental data as trustworthy as financial data.
- [Contact Verdatir](https://verdatir.com/contact): Request a demo or get in touch with the Verdatir team in Stockholm.
- [Careers at Verdatir](https://verdatir.com/careers): Open roles at Verdatir.
- [Glossary](https://verdatir.com/glossary): Definitions of the standards, regulations and concepts behind EPDs, PCFs, LCAs and environmental data verification.

## Insights

- [AI Is Reviewing Sustainability Data. Who Reviews AI?](https://verdatir.com/insights/ai-is-reviewing-sustainability-data-who-reviews-ai): AI hasn't earned its way into sustainability review; it was pulled in because manual review cannot scale to CSRD, LCA, and EPD volumes. The real question is not whether AI should check the data, but whether AI-assisted review can be governed so that a named, accountable person still answers for the result. (2026-08-17, Markdown: https://verdatir.com/insights/ai-is-reviewing-sustainability-data-who-reviews-ai.md)
- [Verification Infrastructure Is the Product](https://verdatir.com/insights/verification-infrastructure-is-the-product): Sustainability standards rely on accredited verifiers, but the real product of any programme is the verification infrastructure behind it. Consistency, independence, scalable capacity, and continuous feedback loops are what make a standard trustworthy in the market. Verdatir argues that verification should be engineered as a core design element, not treated as background plumbing. (2026-08-12, Markdown: https://verdatir.com/insights/verification-infrastructure-is-the-product.md)
- [Why Verified LCAs Still Aren't Comparable](https://verdatir.com/insights/why-verified-lcas-still-arent-comparable): Third-party verification confirms a life cycle assessment followed its own rules. It says nothing about whether two studies followed the same rules. Comparability needs shared Product Category Rules and a structured format to carry them. (2026-08-04, Markdown: https://verdatir.com/insights/why-verified-lcas-still-arent-comparable.md)
- [A Price and a Playbook: What EU's Latest CBAM Related Moves Mean](https://verdatir.com/insights/cbam-2026-price-and-playbook): CBAM's definitive phase is live, the certificate price is set, and two open negotiations in Brussels will decide what importers actually pay. A practical read on prices, deadlines, exemptions, and scope. (2026-07-24, Markdown: https://verdatir.com/insights/cbam-2026-price-and-playbook.md)
- [ISO 14025:2026 reflects the growing maturity of the global EPD ecosystem](https://verdatir.com/insights/iso-14025-2026-epd-ecosystem-maturity): On 24 June 2026 ISO published the biggest update to the EPD standard since 2006. The six changes look unrelated but form one sequence: tightened terminology, a harder boundary against unverified claims, mandatory harmonisation, verified digital tools, formalised prospective EPDs, and a governance regime built for a regulated market. (2026-07-10, Markdown: https://verdatir.com/insights/iso-14025-2026-epd-ecosystem-maturity.md)

## Glossary

- [Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)](https://verdatir.com/glossary/cbam): The EU regulation that puts a carbon price on the embedded emissions of certain imported goods, so that importers pay the equivalent of what EU producers pay under the EU Emissions Trading System.
- [Catena-X](https://verdatir.com/glossary/catena-x): The automotive industry's open data ecosystem for secure, standardised data exchange along the supply chain, including a rulebook and data model for product carbon footprints and other sustainability data.
- [Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)](https://verdatir.com/glossary/csrd): The EU directive that requires large companies and listed SMEs to report sustainability information under the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), applying double materiality and subject to assurance.
- [Critical review](https://verdatir.com/glossary/critical-review): The independent review process defined in ISO 14044 that checks whether an LCA study is consistent with the standard's methodology, data, interpretation and reporting requirements; a panel review is required for comparative assertions disclosed to the public.
- [Data quality rating (DQR)](https://verdatir.com/glossary/data-quality-rating): A structured assessment of how well the data in an LCA or carbon footprint represent the process being modelled, scored on criteria such as technological, geographical and time representativeness, precision and completeness.
- [Digital Product Passport (DPP)](https://verdatir.com/glossary/digital-product-passport): A machine-readable record, introduced by the EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation, that carries product information such as composition, environmental footprint, repairability and provenance across the value chain.
- [Double materiality](https://verdatir.com/glossary/double-materiality): The reporting principle, central to the CSRD and ESRS, that a sustainability topic is material if it matters from an impact perspective (the company's effect on people and environment) or a financial perspective (its effect on the company), or both.
- [Emission factor](https://verdatir.com/glossary/emission-factor): A coefficient that converts a quantity of activity, such as a kilowatt-hour of electricity or a kilogram of steel, into an estimated quantity of greenhouse gas emissions or other environmental impact.
- [EN 15804](https://verdatir.com/glossary/en-15804): The European standard that provides the core Product Category Rules for Environmental Product Declarations of construction products and services, aligning them with ISO 14025 and the EU Product Environmental Footprint impact categories.
- [Environmental Product Declaration (EPD)](https://verdatir.com/glossary/environmental-product-declaration): A standardised, independently verified document that reports the life-cycle environmental impacts of a product, produced according to ISO 14025 and the relevant Product Category Rules.
- [Functional unit and declared unit](https://verdatir.com/glossary/functional-unit): The quantified reference to which all inputs, outputs and impacts in an LCA are related: a functional unit describes the function delivered, while a declared unit describes a quantity of product when the function is not yet known.
- [GHG Protocol Product Standard](https://verdatir.com/glossary/ghg-protocol-product-standard): The Greenhouse Gas Protocol standard for quantifying and publicly reporting the life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of a product, published by WRI and WBCSD.
- [ISO 14025](https://verdatir.com/glossary/iso-14025): The international standard that sets the principles and procedures for Type III environmental declarations, including the use of Product Category Rules, independent verification and programme operation.
- [ISO 14040 and ISO 14044](https://verdatir.com/glossary/iso-14040-14044): The pair of international standards that define the principles, framework, requirements and guidelines for life cycle assessment, including the four phases of an LCA and the rules for critical review.
- [ISO 14067](https://verdatir.com/glossary/iso-14067): The international standard specifying principles, requirements and guidelines for quantifying the carbon footprint of a product, based on ISO 14040 and ISO 14044 and limited to the impact category of climate change.
- [ISO 21930](https://verdatir.com/glossary/iso-21930): The international standard providing core rules for Environmental Product Declarations of construction products and services, serving as the global counterpart to EN 15804.
- [Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)](https://verdatir.com/glossary/life-cycle-assessment): A systematic method, standardised in ISO 14040 and ISO 14044, for quantifying the environmental impacts of a product or service across its entire life cycle, from raw material extraction to end of life.
- [PACT Pathfinder Framework](https://verdatir.com/glossary/pact-pathfinder-framework): A WBCSD-led initiative that defines a common methodology (the Pathfinder Framework) and technical specifications for calculating and exchanging cradle-to-gate product carbon footprints between companies.
- [Primary and secondary data](https://verdatir.com/glossary/primary-and-secondary-data): In life cycle assessment and carbon accounting, primary data are measured or collected directly from the processes in the product's own supply chain, while secondary data come from databases, literature or industry averages.
- [Product Carbon Footprint (PCF)](https://verdatir.com/glossary/product-carbon-footprint): The total greenhouse gas emissions attributable to a product over all or part of its life cycle, expressed in kilograms of CO2 equivalent per unit of product.
- [Product Category Rules (PCR)](https://verdatir.com/glossary/product-category-rules): A set of specific rules, requirements and guidelines for developing Type III environmental declarations for one or more product categories, so that EPDs within a category are calculated and presented consistently.
- [Product Environmental Footprint (PEF)](https://verdatir.com/glossary/product-environmental-footprint): The European Commission's harmonised life-cycle method for measuring the environmental performance of products (PEF) and organisations (OEF), using sixteen impact categories and product-specific rules called PEFCRs.
- [Programme operator](https://verdatir.com/glossary/programme-operator): The organisation that runs an EPD programme under ISO 14025: it publishes the general programme instructions, develops and maintains Product Category Rules, manages verification and registers and publishes EPDs.
- [Scope 3 emissions](https://verdatir.com/glossary/scope-3): All indirect greenhouse gas emissions that occur in a company's value chain, upstream and downstream, other than the purchased energy counted in Scope 2, as defined by the GHG Protocol Corporate Standard.
- [System boundary](https://verdatir.com/glossary/system-boundary): The set of processes included in a life cycle assessment or carbon footprint, defined by which life-cycle stages, activities and flows are inside the study and which are excluded.
- [Third-party verification](https://verdatir.com/glossary/third-party-verification): The independent check, required by ISO 14025 for EPDs, that a declaration and its underlying LCA conform to the applicable standards and Product Category Rules, performed by a verifier independent of the declaring organisation.

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