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.
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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 an estimate of the net removal and/or reduction capacity of this project for the duration of the project crediting period (metric tonnes).
Projects must provide a brief explanation for why they are eligible under the selected protocol.
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 reasoning and evidence for legal ownership over the rights to all removals and reductions that will be claimed.
Projects must provide a brief technical description of the Project activity in accessible language. This should include information on facilities and equipment, the age and average lifespan of equipment, descriptions of technologies, products, services and infrastructure to be utilised, and all further information essential to understanding how carbon removal or emissions reduction is achieved by the Project.
To mitigate the risks of double counting and scheme-hopping, Projects undergoing Validation must disclose any participation in other carbon standards or registries within the past five years, provide recent validation and verification audit reports (including findings and any suspensions or withdrawals), and state whether they withdrew from any prior scheme before completing a first verification.
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 provide a detailed description of the GHG statement approach and methodology in relation to calculations.
Projects must define their system boundary to include all sources, sinks, and reservoirs (SSRs) and their associated GHGs as specified in the relevant protocol. Any GHG SSR that is excluded from the system boundary must be clearly identified and supported by robust justification and evidence where applicable.
Projects crediting non-permanent emission impacts must demonstrate a durability in excess of the designated project durability threshold.
Projects crediting non-permanent emission impacts must select from the durability threshold(s) defined in the protocol or module to be the project durability threshold.
Projects must demonstrate Financial Additionality by evidencing removals and/or reductions 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 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.
For verification, Projects must conduct a sensitivity analysis that demonstrates the impact of each input parameter’s uncertainty on the final net CO₂e uncertainty. For validation, Projects must describe how the sensitivity analysis will be performed and explicitly state whether they will use Certify
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 crediting non-permanent emission impacts must complete the protocol or module specific risk assessment to support the risk of reversal and buffer pool size.
Projects must assert the method(s) for compliance with regulations for all jurisdictions to which the project is beholden.
Projects must demonstrate that activities similar to the activities of the proposed project are not common practice.
Projects must demonstrate Regulatory Additionality by evidencing that the project is not required by existing laws, regulations, policies, or other binding obligations.
Projects must reason and evidence the baseline scenario of their activities having not taken place. Projects will only be credited for removals or reductions above this counterfactual baseline.
Projects must describe and justify any models used for quantification, monitoring, and meeting specified protocol requirements.
Projects must demonstrate Environmental Additionality by evidencing the climate impact of the project. Removals must be net negative after subtracting the counterfactual CO2 removal and all project GHG emissions, including leakage, from project CO2 removals. Reductions must have a net emission reduction after subtracting the Counterfactual GHG CO2e reduction and all project GHG emissions, including leakage, from project CO2e reductions.
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 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 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 provide an overall assessment for the potential material environmental and social impacts, both within and beyond its boundary.
Projects must outline and detail compliance with applicable national and local laws and regulations.
Projects must demonstrate that it creates no net social harm by evaluating the potential negative social risks from a project’s implementation.
Projects must demonstrate how their carbon removal activities are consistent with relevant SDGs.
Stakeholder input process
Stakeholder input process
How will your project work with and respond to the community while staying compliant and adaptable.
Projects must outline the mechanism for stakeholders to voice, process and resolve grievances.
Projects must provide a description and documentation of how comments by local stakeholders have been invited and compiled, a summary of comments received, report on how due account was taken of comments received, and the date and location of the stakeholder consultation, providing photographic evidence where possible.
Pathway-specific
Pathway-specific
How will your project meet pathway-specific process requirements.
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.
Project Proponents must provide a detailed sampling plan describing measurement locations, frequency, and analytical methods, as well as procedures for quality assurance and control.
Projects must provide an appropriate reactor maintenance plan.
Projects must clearly outline their approach to calculation of CO2eWeathered.
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 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 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.
Project must provide evidences that the Project will not lead to negative environmental and social 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.
Projects crediting non-permanent emission impacts must create a table that outlines all monitored parameters in their selected protocol and modules.
Projects located within 1km of an industrial point source of CO2 must outline the method they will use to determine relative difference between local CO2 concentrations and background atmospheric CO2 concentrations.
Project must provide all project characteristics in the Project Design Document (PDD), information unique to DAC such as: information on power purchase agreement, GHG emissions associated with solvent/sorbent use and safe disposal and Purity/concentration of CO2, must also be included
Projects must demonstrate a zero emissions baseline scenario.
Project must quantify and report all GHG emissions (i.e., energy, embodied, transportation emissions) between projects and approaches.
Project must provide quantification for all sources of emissions directly or indirectly related to Project activities.