Projects must provide reasoning and evidence for legal ownership over the rights to all removals that will be claimed.
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Isometric Standardv1.5.1->Biogenic Carbon Capture and StorageProtocolv1.3->CO₂ Storage via Carbonation in the Built EnvironmentModulev1.0->Carbonated Material Storage and MonitoringModulev1.1->CO₂ Storage in Depleted Hydrocarbon ReservoirsModulev1.0->Enhanced Weathering in Closed Engineered SystemsModulev1.0->
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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 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.
Protocol & monitoring data
Protocol & monitoring data
How will you be measuring, monitoring and maintaining carbon removal, including data models and risk assessments.
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 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 confirm how emissions from capture solvents and/or sorbents will be monitored via a relevant national or international standard test method, or otherwise provide justification for another method.
Projects must detail emissions of CO₂ capture solvents and/or sorbents and demonstrate they are below regulatory limits.
Projects incinerating municipal solid waste or hazardous feedstocks must provide evidence of compliance with relevant regulations for the management of incineration residues, or, where no suitable regional standard exists, demonstrate management in accordance with best practice.
Projects must have a CO₂ leak response plan covering the project area which complies with relevant regulations and is shared with relevant stakeholders.
Projects must confirm all CO₂ storage and pipelines have leak monitoring systems, including alarms, and follow any relevant regulations.
Projects must demonstrate that they have a risk assessment and mitigation plan to safeguard working conditions, addressing any specific hazards associated with CCS operations, including the use of the proposed sorbent or solvent.
Projects must estimate water consumption and the water stress on the local area, and detail any mitigation activities to ensure water neutrality.
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.
Pathway-specific
Pathway-specific
How will your project meet pathway-specific process requirements.
Projects must confirm whether they are co-firing with fossil fuels and, if so, whether the fossil CO₂ is captured alongside the biogenic CO₂.
Projects must confirm whether more than 5% of feedstocks by mass are fossil fuels and, if so, provide a justification.
Projects using waste feedstocks with inseparable biogenic and fossil carbon must provide evidence that there is a robust waste management hierarchy in place.
Projects must confirm whether they are using waste feedstocks with inseparable biogenic and fossil carbon and, if so, confirm eligibility in relation to the named sections of the Biomass Feedstock Accounting Module v1.3 (feedstock eligibility, market leakage, and Sustainability Criteria SC6).
Where biogenic fraction is less than 1, Projects must confirm how they will determine the quantity of fossil CO2 captured, including a justification for applying Method A or Method B, and an outline of measurement methods.
Where biogenic fraction is expected to be less than 1, Projects must confirm their intended method of measurement to determine FB.
Projects must identify which type of applicable technology is being used (carbon injection during mixing, carbonation curing, carbon-sequestering aggregates or carbon-sequestering supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs), carbonation of concrete slurry wastewater.
Projects must provide documentation that demonstrates carbon storing in concrete via one of the aforementioned technologies.
Projects must provide documentation of CO2 source.
Projects must provide documentation demonstrating that carbonated concrete meets the same performance requirements of conventional product.
Projects must provide documentation demonstrating that carbonated concrete does not require additional products or activities related to installation and maintenance.
Projects must provide information specific to the region of operations including: geological, climate data, estimated transport radius, type of assets, proof of material suitability, risk of external acid attack, analysis of concrete end-state.
Projects must provide details of a robust quantification / calculation methods of CO2estored.
Projects must provide measurements and models used to calculate CO2eCounterfactual.
Projects must provide details of reactor type and design.
Projects must provide details of engineering design diagram.
Projects must provide details on reactor modelling calculations.
Projects must provide details on material selection.
Projects must provide an appropriate reactor maintenance plan.
Projects must outline their measurement plan for concrete characterization and determination of CO2 stored.
Projects must have a sampling plan that is representative of variability that may occur as a result of carbonation process.
Projects must provide standard operating procedures (SOP) for all analytical method used.
If CO2e stored is quantified using gas phase measurement only, project must provide evidence that carbonate minerals are the only possible CO2 sink within the carbonation system.
Projects must provide proof that the carbonated materials are incorporated into concrete.
Projects must provide standards, methodologies and SOPs that are utilized to demonstrate comparability between produced concretes and traditional concretes, deviations from standards must be highlighted.
Projects using a direct carbonation approach (e.g. carbonation curing or CO2 injection during mixing) are required to characterize any carbonates that are present in the concrete components prior to the commencement of Project activities.
Projects must provide data on characterised pH range and non-carbonic acid concentrations for baseline characterization.
Projects using direct measurements of pH and concentration of anions must provide details of baseline sampling plan.
Projects should submit additional data to further constrain reversal risk.
Projects must provide details on the storage location, including storage type. The storage type designation must be justified in the site description.
Project must provide a post injection monitoring plan that follow post-injection and site decommissioning requirements of the permit for the Project.
Projects must disclose how any potential responsibility or liability will change once the the site has been decommissioned.
Projects must develop and provide a formal site closure plan in accordance with all the regulators permit requirements associated with planning for, preceding with and monitoring of well or site decommissioning.
Projects must develop a well operating plan to outline how the well shall be operated according to the approved plan in the permit.
Projects must describe how the concentration of CO₂ in gaseous, dissolved or supercritical CO₂ stream will be measured.
Projects must provide the casing and cementing program designed to prevent the movement of fluids out of the sequestration zone and above the storage complex.
Projects must provide evidences that the injection well is constructed in compliance with the regulators permit and documentation.
Project must provide records of gross CO2 stored in injected CO2 or CO2-containing injectant
Projects must report evidences for all the required parameters from the monitoring tables in Appendix 1.
Project must provide an emergency response plan outlines corrective actions which will be taken in case of CO2 leakage.
Project must provide identify, highlight, and explain any data gaps or missing calibration data
Projects must conduct site characterizations in compliance with the applicable permit and module requirements.
Projects must describe how the mass of injectant will be measured.
Projects must provide a well permit for the injection site issued by the responsible authority for the location of the injection facility and reservoir.
Projects must provide evidence that the CO2 utilized is from non-fossil fuel sources.
Projects must provide evidence that CO2 is stored as DIC in aqueous phase and report conversion efficiencies.
Projects must provide evidence that all applicable permits and regulatory requirements are met.
Projects must provide evidence that CO2 stored as DIC is eventually stored in the ocean.
Projects must provide reactor designs, including the reactor type, engineering design diagrams, reactor modeling calculations and materials selection.
Projects must justify the sensor positioning for characterizing reactor performance.
Projects must show that reactor designs have suitable mass/volume flow meters placed on all material inlets and outlets.
Projects must provide a detailed description of materials selected for each component and justification of these choices, addressing heat and corrosion resistance given chemical reactors operate at high pressure and temperature.
Projects must include a detailed sampling plan for direct measurements to quantify chemical reactor performance and outputs.
Projects must provide an appropriate reactor maintenance plan.
Projects must provide justification of the chosen frequency of direct fluid measurements of the influent and effluent.
Projects must clearly outline their approach to calculation of CO2eWeathered.
Projects must provide a clear description of the risk of downstream losses and either 1) a justification of why losses are negligible, or 2) a strategy for quantifying a loss factor.
Projects must estimate potential losses along the river network through measurement or models.
Projects must provide a detailed description of their monitoring approach to outgassing upon entering the ocean.
Projects must provide methods used to characterise both influent fluid and effluent fluid, either standardised or non-standardised methods.
Projects must detail how they will measure at least three carbonic acid system parameters.
Projects must provide sample collection procedures and storage conditions for the carbonic acid system.
Projects must provide a detailed description of the point at which concentrated CO2 is introduced to the system.
Where CO2 concentration cannot be measured directly, projects must provide calculations of a conservative estimate of CO2 concentration using the concentration of the CO2 stream, the reactor volume, and the partial pressure of CO2 in the reactor.
Where monitoring of feedstock loss from the system is not possible, projects are required to describe and justify alternate methods of quantifying feedstock loss.
Projects must provide justification of the chosen reactor model formulation demonstrating that reactor modeling conducted for quantification of CO2 loss due to leakage follow best practice reactor modelling principles.
To use a novel measurement method, projects must demonstrate novel measurement performs within error of conventional methods.
Projects must provide report assessing feedstock sourcing, co-products waste, pollution prevention, and ecological impacts.
Projects must monitor receiving water and must provide a diagram of monitoring locations including location of the water column.
Projects must determine site-specific biological and ecological monitoring requirements and must make ecological data publicly available and provide the location of where data is stored publicly.
Projects must report all violations that occurred and justification for any gaps in ocean monitoring data.
Projects must provide their approach for handling data gaps.
Projects must provide established and calculated CO2eCounterfactual by modeling the expected weathering rate of feedstock under storage conditions relevant to the source site for either 1,000 years or a time period justified.