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 report a list of all key variables used in the net CO₂e removal calculation and their individual uncertainties, as well as a description of the uncertainty analysis approach.
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.
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.
Prior to the commencement of project activities, Project Proponents must consult a reputable third party or subject matter expert to assess if Indigenous Peoples will be impacted by project activities, including: activities that occur on land or territories that is owned, occupied, or utilized by Indigenous Peoples, regardless of whether or not this claim is recognized, and/or project activities that will affect natural resources necessary for the livelihoods or cultural rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Projects must actively identify, protect, and promote community well-being.
Pathway-specific
Pathway-specific
How will your project meet pathway-specific process requirements.
Projects must demonstrate that the project area is ≥ 1 hectare
Projects must demonstrate that the project area is ≥ 1 hectare.
The Project lies within a biome, ecoregion, or forest type for which one or more AGB data products are available that meet the eligibility guidelines as determined by Isometric.
Projects must demonstrate that the project area is ≥ 1 hectare.
Projects must provide evidence of ecological appropriateness.
Projects must provide evidence of degradation.
Project activities must not restore lands where deforestation occurred within the 10 years prior to project initiation.
Project Proponents must document all proposed restoration activities.
Projects must provide field measurement details
Projects must provide the allometric equations used.
Projects must use allometric equations which are widely accepted in scientific literature or which have rigorous evidence supporting their applicability.
Projects must provide a description of the major sources of uncertainty.
Projects must evaluate and report uncertainty and how it was accounted for within the quantification procedures.
Projects must meet a statistical equivalence between field plot data and the AGB map.
Projects must report when the model was most recently benchmarked against field plot measurements within the project, which must be within 5 years.
Projects must submit a description and copies of any data used and/or collected for benchmarking.
Projects must provide details on the frequency of ALS data collection throughout the crediting period and how this aligns withe the requirements under the crediting protocol.
Projects must provide details on the spatial coverage of the ALS measurements.
Projects must provide details of the instruments and calibrations used and their alignment with manufacturer's specifications.
Projects must provide the flight altitude and velocity of the drone/plane used for ALS measurements.
Projects must report the details of their data aquisition approach and show it is sufficient to yield a digital elevation model of 1 m resolution or greater over the observed area.
Projects must provide details of the data processing procedures used with sufficient detail to allow for replication and justification of the appropriateness of the workflow for high resolution LiDAR.
Projects should use plots within the project area for developing the ALS-based predictive model.
Projects must provide evidence that the selected model type is based on peer-reviewed methodologies, with prior usage in peer-reviewed studies or in industry or government applications.
Projects must provide justification that the model is applicable to the species and ecoregion represented in the project area.
Projects must provide details of the entire modeling workflow and justifications for each step, including model selection, feature selection, model architecture, datasets collation, and any assumptions used.
Projects must provide data and code used to train the model, including metrics extracted from the ALS measurements.
Projects must provide evidence of the validation of the model used, which can be either via a track use in in science, industry or government applications or direct validation against reputable data.
Projects must provide an assessment of model skill, which must use data that is representative of the project area but was not used in model training.
Projects must report the range of feature values to which the model is being applied for AGB estimation in the project area relative to the range of values over which the model was developed to ensure the model is being appropriately applied.
Projects must provide details on the procedure used for applying the model to generate an AGB map for the project area.
Projects must provide details on the procedure used for quantifying M_AGB using the generated AGB map for the project area.
Projects must provide a description and copies of all data used and/or collected for AGB quantification.
Projects crediting non-permanent emission impacts must create a table that outlines all monitored parameters in their selected protocol and modules.
Projects must delineate a Project Boundary encompassing all restoration activities.
Projects must delineate Restoration Zone(s) that guides a uniform restoration plan.
Projects must describe the project timeline, including the duration of the crediting period and the frequency of reporting periods.
The Project Proponent must have legal, documented land tenure for the duration of the Crediting Period and contractual access to the project area throughout the Ongoing Monitoring Period.
Projects must provide a financial model and cash flow statement which demonstrates a clear payment structure for the duration of the Ongoing Monitoring Period.
Projects must provide ex-ante estimates of biomass growth and expected time to maturity, including description of ex-ante model or calculations and uncertainty bands.
Project Proponents must comply with all national and local laws, regulations and policies.
Projects must provide adaptive management plans for all foreseeable risks identified in the preparation of environmental and social impact assessments.
Projects must identify if there are any large intact natural landscapes in or around the project area, such as protected areas, wildlife corridors, or other major habitats.
Projects must identify if there are any rare, threatened, and endangered ecosystems and habitats in the project area.
Projects must document all significant ecosystem services in the region and how they may be affected by the project activities.
Projects must document whether there are community needs within the project area. If none are identified, provide the evidence of due diligence in arriving at this conclusion.
Projects must document whether there are cultural values within the project area. If none are identified, provide the evidence of due diligence in arriving at this conclusion.
Projects must provide a list of all rare, threatened, or endangered species and endemic species in the project area.
Projects must list all species that will be planted and/or maintained as part of project activities.
Projects must provide information on pre-project productivity.
Projects must provide information on their leakage mitigation sites.
Projects must provide information on the emissions impact of their leakage mitigation sites.
Projects must provide estimates of market leakage emissions.
Projects must specify and justify the carbon fraction which will be used for the calculation of CO₂e in biomass.
Projects must describe their method of estimating aboveground biomass and how their approach will adhere to the requirements of the relevant Module.
Projects must describe the method of calculating belowground biomass.
Projects seeking to include soil organic carbon stocks must describe the method of quantifying the soil carbon stocks present in each Restoration Zone.
Projects must describe their long-term durability plan for the Ongoing Monitoring period.
Projects must complete Isometric
Projects must describe how they implement safeguards against reversals. These safeguards must be in place at the start of The Project and maintained throughout the Project Commitment Period.
Projects must indicate whether they will contribute 20% of credits generated in a reporting period to the buffer pool or contribute credits based on the risk-based buffer pool contribution approach.