Projects must provide a brief explanation for why they are eligible under the selected protocol.
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Project setup
Project setup
Essential project details including who's involved, the location of your project, and how much carbon will be removed.
Projects must provide reasoning and evidence for legal ownership over the rights to all removals that will be claimed.
Projects must provide a brief technical description of the carbon removal Project activity in accessible language. This should include information on facilities and equipment, the age and average lifespan of equipment, and all further information essential to understanding how carbon removal is achieved by the Project.
Projects must provide a complete list of organizations participating in the project. This must include: the organization's name, role in the project, registration number, address, contact person, email address, and phone number.
Projects must submit at least one address and/or specific geo-coordinates for the project. Projects may submit multiple project locations – please specify what role each location plays in the project.
Projects must provide an estimate of the net carbon removal capacity of this project for the duration of the project crediting period (metric tonnes).
Protocol & monitoring data
Protocol & monitoring data
How will you be measuring, monitoring and maintaining carbon removal, including data models and risk assessments.
Projects must define the temporal and geographic project boundary.
Projects must define their system boundary and outline all GHGs considered across all sources, sinks and reservoirs (SSRs). Robust justification and appropriate evidence must be provided for any GHG SSRs that have been excluded from the project boundary.
Projects must provide a detailed description of the GHG statement approach and methodology in relation to calculations.
Projects must reason and evidence the baseline scenario of their activities having not taken place. Projects will only be credited for removals above this counterfactual baseline.
Projects must evaluate leakage by providing a robust assessment of the potential increases in GHG emissions outside the system boundary that occurs as a result of the project activity.
Projects must demonstrate financial additionality by evidencing removals are the main purpose and only source of revenue; OR demonstrating that economic barriers would prevent project implementation in the absence of carbon finance.
Projects must demonstrate that activities similar to the activities of the proposed project are not common practice.
Projects must demonstrate environmental additionality by evidencing the climate impact of the project is net negative after subtracting the counterfactual CO2 removal and all project GHG emissions, including leakage, from project CO2 removals.
Projects must demonstrate regulatory additionality by evidencing that the project is not required by existing laws, regulations, policies, or other binding obligations.
Projects must assert the method(s) for compliance with regulations for all jurisdictions to which the project is beholden.
Projects must select from the durability threshold(s) defined in the protocol or module to be the project durability threshold.
Projects must demonstrate a durability in excess of the designated project durability threshold.
If projects are targeting 200-year durability, details on the method or approach used for annual average soil temperature calculation must be provided.
Projects must complete the protocol or module specific risk assessment to support the risk of reversal and buffer pool size.
Projects must specify whether they will follow the default monitoring plan or submit and justify a monitoring plan which may contain additional or modified monitored parameters.
Projects must conduct a sensitivity analysis that demonstrates the impact of each input parameter’s uncertainty on the final net CO₂e uncertainty.
Projects must specify whether they used conservative estimates of input parameters, variance propagation and/or Monte Carlo simulations in consideration of uncertainty (one or multiple options).
Projects must detail and justify their uncertainty analysis and any uncertainty adjustments (e.g. %) applied in instances of high uncertainty.
Projects must describe and justify any models used for quantification, monitoring, and meeting specified protocol requirements.
Projects must describe the data collection and storage approach taken, including how data is transmitted, collected and stored, the length of time for which records are archived, backup procedures and strategies and the person(s) / organization(s) responsible for measurement and data collection.
Environmental & social impacts
Environmental & social impacts
How will your project affect people and nature, and how will you manage any risks that arise.
Projects must outline and detail compliance with applicable national and local laws and regulations.
Projects must provide an overall assessment for the potential material environmental and social impacts, both within and beyond its boundary.
Projects must demonstrate that it creates no net environmental harm through an environmental impact assessment. This assessment must include, but is not limited to, resource efficiency and pollution prevention and biodiversity conservation and sustainable management of living natural resources.
Projects must demonstrate that it creates no net social harm by evaluating the potential negative social risks from a project’s implementation.
Projects must document how agricultural productivity and soil quality will be monitored, including which productivity and soil characteristics will be tested and the frequency of testing.
Projects must demonstrate how their carbon removal activities are consistent with relevant SDGs.
Projects must describe the conditions under which the project will be considered closed, and describe the project closure plan – outlining any post-cessation actions that will be undertaken upon closure of the project.
Projects must include a plan for information sharing, emergency response and conditions for stopping or pausing a deployment.
Projects must describe and provide evidence for pollution prevention against Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs), heavy metals and any other pollutants identified.
Projects should collect and detail baseline soil samples prior to spreading biochar, including soil pH, soil moisture content, bulk density/particle size, soil type and texture, nutrient availability and soil organic content.
Projects may choose to report any co-benefits related to soil health and quality that are a result of their activity.
Stakeholder input process
Stakeholder input process
How will your project work with and respond to the community while staying compliant and adaptable.
Projects must provide a description and documentation of how comments by local stakeholders have been invited and compiled, a summary of comments received, and report on how due account was taken of comments received.
Projects must outline the mechanism for stakeholders to voice, process and resolve grievances.
Pathway-specific
Pathway-specific
How will your project meet pathway-specific process requirements.
Projects must describe and provide an engineering design diagram of the chemical reactor used to achieve pyrolysis.
Projects must describe and evidence the sensors used to quantify any loss of pyrolysis gasses during operation of the reactor to leakage.
Projects must describe the selection of materials for each component of the reactor, including suitable justification of these choices from the perspectives of thermal and mechanical resilience.
Projects must describe and evidence an appropriate reactor maintenance plan.
Projects must describe and justify the sampling procedure, including the number and frequency of sampling and analysis.
Projects must provide a detailed bulleted list of the relevant standards that have been utilized in the biochar characterization.
Projects should provide the details of any measurements of biochar physical properties that have been taken.
Projects should provide the details of any measurements of biochar chemical properties that have been taken.
Projects must report the analytical laboratory/laboratories that have been utilized for the biochar characterization.
Projects must perform chemical analysis required for biochar characterization.
Projects must describe biochar characterization and the approach to ongoing monitoring requirements.
Projects must provide evidence demonstrating that CO2 is stored in the built environment through the incorporation of biochar into the built materials.
Projects must provide evidence demonstrating that construction materials with biochar incorporated meet the same performance requirements as conventional products.
Projects must provide evidence demonstrating that construction materials do not require additional installation/maintenance products.
Projects must specify contaminant monitoring plan, including potential impact on product quality and the surrounding environment, specific contaminants to be tracked and the frequency of testing.
Projects must provide applicable environmental legal and regulatory requirements.
Projects must provide details of how measurements relevant to regulatory requirements are carried out.
Projects must provide evidence demonstrating that all emissions related to biochar storage are fully accounted for within the Project system boundary.
Projects must provide detailed descriptions of project boundaries for all Crediting activities.
Projects must report a set of at least 500 measurements of R0 calculated at the maceral level for each sample of their biochar.
Projects must provide detailed information on the end material production process.
Projects must provide documentation verifying biochar incorporation.
Projects must provide an engineering design diagram.
Projects must provide evidence demonstrating the products are in compliance with relevant standards and the products are comparable with traditional products.