The Thai national authority for carbon footprint certification.

TGO is the Thailand Greenhouse Gas Management Organization (Public Organization), established in 2007 under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE) as Thailand’s national authority for greenhouse-gas accounting, project crediting, and corporate climate certification. TGO administers the CFO (Carbon Footprint for Organization), CFP (Carbon Footprint for Product), T-VER (Thailand Voluntary Emission Reduction), Low Carbon Label, Carbon Neutral, and Net Zero programmes. It is the Thai domestic authority that all Thai 56-1 One Report carbon claims, Thai Green Public Procurement carbon-intensity criteria, and Thai voluntary credit issuance run through.

CFO covers an entire organisation’s GHG inventory — Scope 1, Scope 2, and optionally Scope 3 — for a defined reporting period (typically 1 year), aligned with ISO 14064-1:2018 and the GHG Protocol. Validity is 1 year, renewable annually. CFP covers a single product’s lifecycle emissions — cradle-to-gate, cradle-to-grave, or business-to-business — aligned with ISO 14067 product-LCA principles. Validity is 3 years, renewable. CFO is what SET-listed corporates submit for annual climate disclosure; CFP is what manufacturers use for product labelling, Green Public Procurement eligibility, and (increasingly) EU CBAM data preparation. Most mature Thai climate programmes use both — Panit holds both auditor qualifications.

TGO issues the certificate; the verifier prepares the verification report TGO reviews. The chain is verifier → TGO → certificate. The verifier (Panit’s role on an Othello engagement) conducts the technical verification, drafts the verification report, and submits it directly to TGO with the client’s application. TGO reviews the report, may request clarifications, and issues the CFO or CFP certificate at its sole discretion. This authority separation is the design feature that gives TGO certifications their public-authority defensibility — a single party that both verified and issued would be substantively just self-certification.

For CFO, typically 6-12 weeks end-to-end: 1-2 weeks scoping and data preparation, 2-4 weeks verifier fieldwork (varies by Scope 3 ambition and number of sites), 1-2 weeks report drafting and management response, 2-4 weeks TGO review. For CFP, typically 8-16 weeks: longer because lifecycle data assembly is more involved than corporate inventory, and the boundary decisions require more upfront agreement. The binding constraints are usually data availability on the client side and TGO’s queue at the time of submission, not the verifier’s calendar. Othello’s bench plans both ahead — typical engagement letter issuance is within 1 business day of scoping.

Yes — TGO’s CFO is recognised by CDP as one of the eligibility criteria in its Climate Disclosure Leadership Index (CDLI) and Climate Performance Leadership Index (CPLI) evaluation systems. DJSI in turn uses CDP scoring as one input into its sustainability indices, used by global ESG investors. A current TGO CFO certificate substantially de-risks both CDP submission and DJSI eligibility — the credential is internationally legible without translation. For capital-markets exposure beyond CDP/DJSI (IFRS S2, audit-firm assurance, EU CSRD), TGO certification is necessary but not sufficient — paired with ISO 14064-3 verification and where appropriate AA1000AS v3 or ISAE 3410, which Othello operates as a single integrated workflow under Panit’s anchor credentials.

TGO’s CFO methodology is aligned with ISO 14064-1:2018 and the GHG Protocol Corporate Standard; CFP is aligned with ISO 14067 product-LCA principles. For verification, TGO recognises ISO 14064-3:2019 as the technical methodology floor. A verifier holding both TGO CFO + CFP Auditor qualifications and CQI/IRCA ISO 14064 Lead Auditor accreditation can run the verification once and document it to satisfy both audiences — domestic Thai recognition through TGO and international assurance through ISO 14064-3. Panit holds both, which is why Othello can scope TGO + ISO 14064 work under one engagement letter. See /certifications/iso-14064/ for the international standard detail.

T-VER (Thailand Voluntary Emission Reduction) is TGO’s domestic carbon-credit scheme — the Thai equivalent of international voluntary credit programmes such as Verra (VCS) and Gold Standard. Projects in energy, forestry, agriculture, transport, and waste sectors can issue T-VER credits after independent verification against TGO methodologies. STACS’ ESGpedia registry recently added T-VER to its double-counting prevention infrastructure, enhancing trust amongst market participants. T-VER credits feed downstream into TGO’s Carbon Neutral certification, which recognises an organisation, event, or product that has measured, reduced, and offset its remaining GHG emissions to net zero for a reporting period.

TGO certification is not a substitute for EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) reporting — CBAM requires reporting on its own template using its own methodology against EU-defined defaults. However, a Thai exporter holding a current TGO CFP certificate has verified embedded-emissions data per product unit, aligned with ISO 14067 — which substantially eases the CBAM data-assembly burden and provides a defensible underlying dataset. For cement, iron, steel, aluminium, fertilisers, electricity, or hydrogen exports to the EU, the CFP + CBAM combination is increasingly the practical configuration. Othello’s bench operates the full stack — TGO CFP for the Thai authority view, ISO 14067 alignment for international portability, CBAM reporting for the EU regulatory submission.

By contacting TGO directly to confirm Panit’s CFO + CFP Auditor status, or via TGO’s public list of authorised verifiers on the Thai Carbon Label website (thaicarbonlabel.tgo.or.th). TGO maintains the authoritative list of authorised verifiers by name and organisation. The verification chain is direct: TGO is the issuing body, and TGO is the registry — no third-party intermediary. Othello provides the certificate copy and credential reference under mutual NDA on request, but procurement should check TGO’s published list first as the primary verification route. See /certifications/ for the full credential register and verification routes for all 20 credentials Othello documents.

TGO CFO + CFP Auditor is the third anchor of Othello’s eight-credential ESG-assurance cluster, alongside AA1000AS ACSAP, ISO 14064 Lead Auditor, VERRA Lead Assessor, CORSIA Verifier, ICVCM CCP, and ISCC PLUS — all held by Panit Chancharoonpong. TGO is the Thai national authority anchor; AA1000AS and ISO 14064 are the international anchors; together they cover the substantive backing for every climate, carbon, and sustainability-assurance engagement Othello delivers to Thai SET-listed corporates, EU-facing exporters, and US-procurement clients alike. Founded 2020 on US Government bilingual contracts under FAR-grade contractor verification, the firm’s procurement-grade audit-trail standard applies to TGO submission engagements the same way it applies to ATA-certified translation or 56-1 One Report disclosure. One engagement letter, one NDA from first email, one audit-trail Bangkok-side, twenty credentials behind it. Email [email protected] or call +66 02-859-2145.