Carbon credit standards and integrity
Standards set programme rules. Methodologies set the accounting approach for particular project activities. Project documents, monitoring, independent audits and registry records show how those requirements were applied.
Programme, methodology, project and registry
A carbon-crediting programme establishes overarching rules and governance. A methodology sets requirements for a particular type of activity. The project applies those requirements to a defined location and monitoring plan. The registry records issuance, transfer and retirement.
Independent validation and verification bodies assess project design and monitored outcomes against the applicable requirements.
Governance, eligibility, approval processes, registry infrastructure and oversight.
Applicability, baseline, additionality, calculations, monitoring parameters and safeguards for an activity.
The real-world implementation, participants, evidence, monitoring and corrective action.
Independent assessment of design and monitored outcomes, followed by programme review.
Unique issuance, ownership and retirement records that prevent the same unit being used twice.
Different questions sit at different levels
Assessing high integrity
A practical framework for reviewing quality across the programme, project and intended use.
→Core Carbon Principles
The programme and category-level benchmark behind CCP labels.
→CORSIA eligibility
A separate eligibility framework for units used by aeroplane operators under CORSIA.
→Article 6 authorisation
The scope and wording to examine in a Letter of Authorisation.
→Talk through the evidence with our team
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