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 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.
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 removal and/or reduction capacity of this project for the duration of the project crediting period (metric tonnes).
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.
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 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 must provide a detailed description of the GHG statement approach and methodology in relation to calculations.
Projects must define the temporal and geographic project boundary.
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 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 crediting non-permanent emission impacts must demonstrate a durability in excess of the designated project durability threshold.
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 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.
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 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. 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 demonstrate Regulatory Additionality by evidencing that the project is not required by existing laws, regulations, policies, or other binding obligations.
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 must assert the method(s) for compliance with regulations for all jurisdictions to which the project is beholden.
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 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 demonstrate how their carbon removal activities are consistent with relevant SDGs.
Project Proponents must identify jurisdictional authorities, including local rightsholders, of the water body of the project site and affected areas. Project Proponents must receive official permitting for the Project from all relevant authorities of the water body of the project site and affected areas.Project Proponents must observe ratified provisions in international conventions where relevant, and enter into good faith negotiations with Isometric to resolve potential conflicts between applicable regulations and standards.
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, report on how due account was taken of comments received, and the date and location of the stakeholder consultation, providing photographic evidence where possible.
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 crediting non-permanent emission impacts must create a table that outlines all monitored parameters in their selected protocol and modules.
Project must provide relevant permit and evidences that all permitting requirements are met. The permit must clearly identify storage location and the feedstock and must be shared with Isometric and VVB.
Project must provide characterization of all carbonated materials of the Project
Project must provide details of storage location, including storage type of the carbonated materials. Specifically, the storage type designation must be justified in the site description.
Project must report any fire that occurred or if occurred at the storage facility and must determine if a reversal is likely to occurred and the quantify the risk.
Projects must provide an adaptive management plan in the PDD that includes: 1) information sharing procedures, 2) emergency response protocols, and 3) conditions for stopping or pausing deployment.
Projects must measure DIC at points A and E targeting combined CO2(aq), HCO3- and CO3 2-. Provide in the PDD: 1) analytical methodology or SOP used, 2) calibration procedures, and 3) standardization details.
Projects must select one of two approaches to quantify CO2e stored in precipitated carbonate minerals: Option 1 (mass-based measurements) or Option 2 (liquid-phase measurements). Designate one as the primary approach and use the other for reconciliation. The primary and reconciliation approaches must agree within 1 standard deviation.
Describe how mass-based measurements will be used to determine new carbonate mineral formation.
Describe how mass-based measurements will be used to determine new carbonate mineral formation
Projects must describe in the PDD: 1) the risk of each ocean loss term (initial mixing, secondary precipitation, biotic calcification, sediment interactions), and 2) either a quantification strategy for each loss or a justification of why it is negligible. Acceptable approaches include avoidance strategies with monitoring, conservative upper-limit estimates, process-based modeling, or direct measurements.
Projects must consider broader impacts on CDR from discharge of undissolved alkalinity, biological fertilization and incomplete acid neutralization.
Projects must complete reconciliation calculations for the key carbon removal terms (DIC and carbonate minerals). Discrepancies beyond analytical precision (1 standard deviation) must be: 1) reported to the VVB and Isometric, 2) addressed with a system audit, and 3) explained with justification for the value used. Alternative reconciliation approaches must be agreed with Isometric.
Conditional: Where waste alkaline feedstocks are used, projects must assess whether counterfactual weathering of the feedstocks should be considered. Where applicable, determine and document the appropriate counterfactual treatment in consultation with Isometric.
Projects must describe all pre-deployment requirements in the PDD, covering site characterization, discharge modeling, baseline conditions, water quality restoration plans, and feedstock characterization.
Projects must establish a monitoring plan prior to project activities and describe it in the PDD, covering in-facility measurements, ocean monitoring, and data reporting.
Projects must provide an ocean monitoring plan spanning pre-deployment, operational, and post-operational phases. Include a diagram of monitoring locations showing position in the water column.
Projects must report missing data, outliers (>3 standard deviations from the mean), or unexplained results to the VVB and Isometric as soon as possible after identification. Describe the proposed handling of affected data in the PDD.