Probus Sigma

Probus Sigma is an independent environmental investment technical research and development facility based in Lisbon, the home of the International Standards Community. The company is owned by its sta and partners. Probus maintains a 15 year leading international role in the research, technical support and development of existing and new environmentally based standards by which investment decisions are made. Over the years, Probus has worked closely with, Standard Owners, Financial Institutions, NGO’s, Governments and the Private Investment sector, in fact 90% of the global environmental / sustainable standards in use today have benefitted from specialist input from Probus technical specialists. Probus Sigma is the only facility worldwide that has pioneered the development of Investment Grade environmental standards, the rise in the implementaion of ISO “Private” or “Hybrid” environmentally based standards for use as benchmarks for investment has created the need for substantial revisions of, for instance, accreditation processes which now must contain not only ISO based compliance factors but crucially, must also contain credible and robust financial risk averse strategies. Probus is the only entity technically constructing and implementing these dual risk reduction accreditation processes. Members of the Probus management staff serve and have served as experts, board members, and founding CEOs of some of the most important International standards developed in the last ten years. These include CDM, JI & Voluntary GHG Programmes as well as activities related to monitoring & verification under the EU ETS. Providing input to the UK Financial Stewardship Code, accreditation oversight boards, including Globalgap, and as acting, founding CEO of VCS and IETA. Without doubt, the knowledge bank accrued over several years is without equal, the ‘hands on’ experience continues to attract new projects and new product development. Probus is now collaberating with several leading European University Business Schools to define predictive investment and Insurance risk methodologies linked to large scale GHG Projects.

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