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World’s Largest Carbon Program Pilots Digital Measuring of Forest Carbon
Verra and Pachama introduce cutting-edge digital measurement, reporting, and verification pilot for nature-based solutions, increasing the transparency, integrity, and efficiency of carbon credit…
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Gold Standard Digitising for Impact
Driving systems changes in climate and sustainability through next-generation digital solutions and governance innovations designed for scale, interoperability, and equitable system access.The Open…
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Environmental Risk Management
table, th, td { border:1px solid #ffffff; padding:10px } C2: Environmental risk management: This criterion assesses the robustness of a given project’s measures and procedures to ensure…
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Carbon Integrity (Project Assessment and Final Decision)
table, th, td { border:1px solid #ffffff; padding:10px } C1: Carbon integrity: This criterion assesses the inherent carbon-integrity risks of a given project based on its project type,…
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Project Governance and Structure
table, th, td { border:1px solid #ffffff; padding:10px } Q3: Project governance and structure: This criterion assesses the capabilities, structure, and counterparty risks of the project team…
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MRV Infrastructure
table, th, td { border:1px solid #ffffff; padding:10px } Q1: MRV infrastructure: This criterion assesses the project’s closeness to best-practice MRV mechanisms for assuring that key carbon…
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Project ERC Value and Additional Value Enabled by Project
The two criteria, F1: Project ERC value and F2: Additional value enabled by project, seek to assess the project’s financial values in various potential scenarios to determine and stress-test its…
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Socioeconomic Value (Initial Profiling and Preliminary Decision)
table, th, td { border:1px solid #ffffff; padding:10px } S2: Socioeconomic value: As indicated in Introduction to the Project Assessment Framework, a project’s socioeconomic value at this…
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Additional Value Enabled by Project (Initial Profiling and Preliminary Decision)
table, th, td { border:1px solid #ffffff; padding:10px } F2: Additional value enabled by project: For many projects, beyond the revenues from selling ERCs, the project activities also…
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Project ERC Value (Initial Profiling and Preliminary Decision)
table, th, td { border:1px solid #ffffff; padding:10px } F1: Project ERC value: As the first criterion to assess the project’s high-level potential for value maximization, or the potential…
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Article 6 Readiness and Eligibility
table, th, td { border:1px solid #ffffff; padding:10px } S3: Article 6 readiness and eligibility: As the mechanisms and rules for Article 6 of the Paris Agreement continue to develop, Article 6…
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Carbon Integrity and Environmental and Social Risk Management
table, th, td { border:1px solid #ffffff; padding:10px } C1, C2, and C3: Carbon integrity and environmental and social risk management: As indicated in Introduction to the Project…
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Green Economy Priorities
table, th, td { border:1px solid #ffffff; padding:10px } S1: Green economy priorities is the only component assessed under Step Zero of the process, where a set of inputs per country are…
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Appendices: Country System Assessments
Beyond capability development, cooperative approaches may also be beneficial across other market development activities. See Appendix A to understand more on the extent to which cooperation on a…
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Contents: Country System Assessments
Find a full outline to sections and resources found in the Strategic Guidance for Country System Assessments. UNLOCKING GLOBAL EMISSION REDUCTION CREDIT (Main Landing Page)Strategic Guidance for…
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Abbreviations: Country System Assessments
Find a list of helpful terms used in the Strategic Guidance for Country System Assessments Guidelines. ACR American Carbon Registry [USA] ACCU Australian Carbon Credit Units […
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Sample Country Assessment Pages
Appendix B of Strategic Guidance for Country System AssessmentsCountry Baseline: Sets the context for the country's position and progress in its legal and institutional frameworksSample…
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Approach for Cooperative Approaches
Appendix A of Strategic Guidance for Country System AssessmentsBeyond capability development, cooperative approaches may also be beneficial across other market development activities.…
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Scope for Further Refinements
The carbon market landscape continues to evolve rapidly, and it is crucial that countries embrace the ability to adapt and reflect the latest market developments. Scope for Further Refinements…
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Defined Article 6 Transaction Frameworks
table, th, td { border:1px solid #ffffff; padding:10px } D1: Defined Article 6 transaction frameworks. Establishing mechanisms and processes for Article 6 transactions as a host country is an…
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Develops Trading Infrastructure & Mechanisms
table, th, td { border:1px solid #ffffff; padding:10px } D2: Develops trading infrastructure & mechanisms. As countries establish their institutions and work on scaling supply, the…
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Robust MRV Approaches
table, th, td { border:1px solid #ffffff; padding:10px } V1: Robust MRV approaches. For countries choosing to roll out their own crediting systems, identifying the distinct and complementary…
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Defined Benefit-Sharing Frameworks
table, th, td { border:1px solid #ffffff; padding:10px } S4: Defined benefit-sharing frameworks. Given the increasing importance of stakeholder engagement in ERC projects, governments may…
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Adequate VVB capabilities
table, th, td { border:1px solid #ffffff; padding:10px } V2: Adequate VVB capabilities. To have a sufficiently scaled ERC supply landscape, it is important to have equally sufficient and…
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Streamlined Project Permitting
table, th, td { border:1px solid #ffffff; padding:10px } S2: Streamlined project permitting. Streamlined permitting processes for ERC projects are essential for project developers to deploy…