Certification Standards: Robust independent third-party certification standards are fundamental to sourcing biomass responsibly. Drax commits to using leading sustainability standards that recognise multi-stakeholder perspectives, can be independently verified and enable transparency across the supply chain.
Drax believes that robust third-party independent certification standards are central to ensuring biomass is sourced responsibly and are therefore integral to this policy's implementation.
Drax recognises that such schemes will vary across feedstock types therefore we are committed to using third party standards which cover the whole spectrum of sustainability considerations. Therefore, as a principle Drax commits to using third party certification schemes which recognise multi-stakeholder perspectives, are accredited and can be used to independently verify biomass sourcing. Such schemes provide a level of rigor and assurance that biomass is responsibly sourced and crucially enable traceability and transparency to track biomass across the supply chain.
Therefore to support this objective, Drax commits to:
4 Drax reserves the contractual right to independently audit suppliers as part of its programme of checks and balances