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.
Projects must document full project characteristics.
Projects must make all evidence and data related to the underlying quantification of net CO₂ removal and environmental monitoring available to the public through the Isometric registry.
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.
Projects must complete an adaptive management plan which outlines conditions for stopping or pausing a deployment.
Projects must describe how net carbon removal is quantified for the project, following Equation 1 in Section 8.2 of the protocol.
Projects must describe the effluent measurements taken from the outflow pipe prior to release in the ocean.
Projects must describe the approach used to upscale the alkalinity dosing measurements into an alkalinity forcing function to be used as a model input.
Projects must outline whether CO₂ equilibration will be quantified over the coastal domain, the open-ocean domain, or both.
Projects must describe the risk of all potential losses of alkalinity upon alkalinity discharge into the ocean, in addition to (1) a justification of why the losses are negligible, OR (2) a strategy for quantifying them.
Projects must provide a site description including the dominant circulation and modes of variability, as well as the frequency of various environmental conditions.
Projects must disclose other marine CDR activities which are co-located at the site.
Projects must develop a conceptual model of plume transport and dispersion.
Projects must select alkalinity dosing rates that result in alkalinity release that adhere to safety thresholds and minimize water contamination and accumulation on the sea bed.
[For mineral OAE Projects only] Projects must characterize feedstocks for alkalinity enhancement using the Isometric Rock and Mineral Feedstock Characterization Module.
Projects must describe how the feedstock dissolution rate is characterized, including evidence of whether or not the feedstock is fast dissolving.
[For electrochemical OAE Projects only] Projects must provide detailed information on the neutralization and disposal route for acid byproduct.
[For electrochemical OAE Projects only] Projects must identify and provide detailed information on the storage and disposal of hazardous by-products.
Projects must summarize the full monitoring plan used to demonstrate permit compliance, monitor environmental conditions, conduct ongoing measurements for quantification, and establish processes for adaptive management.
Projects must summarize the effluent monitoring plan, which must satisfy the minimum common measurement requirements.
Projects must summarize the in-water monitoring plan, which must satisfy the minimum common measurement requirements.
Projects must outline any additional effluent or in-water measurements that may be required depending on project and site specifics.
Projects must outline any additional measurements that may be required depending on project and site specifics according to Section 11.4 of the Protocol (Additional monitoring requirements).
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.
Projects must outline all relevant permitting details for the OAE project and provide proof of permits.
Projects must conduct an environmental risk assessment.
Projects must conduct a social risk assessment.
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.
Projects must demonstrate active stakeholder engagement throughout project planning and operation.
Pathway-specific
Pathway-specific
How will your project meet pathway-specific process requirements.
Projects must provide the name(s) of the 3D physical-biogeochemical ocean model used.
Projects must describe the model domain and justify why it was chosen.
Projects must describe the parameterization of air-sea CO₂ flux in the model.
Project must describe and justify the horizontal and vertical grid resolution and parameterization of sub grid-scale physics.
Projects must describe the model boundary conditions.
Projects must describe the biogeochemical model.
Projects must describe and justify the simulations that will be run.
Projects must describe the model outputs and output frequency used for quantifying CO₂ uptake.
The ocean model must represent relevant physical and biogeochemical processes with high fidelity.
If the model used has been previously previously validated with a track record of use in science, industry, government, or other applications, projects must provide citations and proof of usage in previous applications, and justify why the model is appropriate.
If the model does not have a track record of use, projects must provide proof of model validation against observational data.
Projects must describe the method used for quantifying the net air-sea CO₂ removal over the reporting period from the model outputs.
Projects must disclose sources of uncertainty and describe the approach to quantifying the largest sources of uncertainty in the net CO₂ removal quantification.
Project must specify a crediting timeline, which describes the expected frequency at which credits will be issued based on the progression of air-sea gas exchange.
Projects must provide the necessary information such that the model results informing the CO₂removal quantification are reproducible.
Projects crediting non-permanent emission impacts must create a table that outlines all monitored parameters in their selected protocol and modules.