Projects must perform and report a common practice analysis.
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How will you be measuring, monitoring and maintaining carbon removal, including data models and risk assessments.
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Pathway-specific
How will your project meet pathway-specific process requirements.
Projects must provide a shapefile of the project boundaries and describe the rationale for the selection of the project site.
Projects must provide ex-ante estimates of forest growth and expected time to forest maturity with descriptions of the quantitative basis of the projections, including associated uncertainty.
Projects must demonstrate that they have proper authorization which covers the length of the project commitment period from the true property ownership by providing evidence of the landowner's signatory consent.
Projects must provide a financial model and cash flow statement to demonstrate continued financial viability of the project for the full project commitment period.
Projects must describe the project timeline, including the duration of the crediting period and the frequency of reporting periods.
Projects must provide the length of the intended ongoing monitoring period and justification for its length, if any.
Projects must describe how long-term maintenance of forest carbon stocks will be supported and reversals will be prevented after the project commitment period.
Projects must provide evidence that the activities are occurring on degraded lands or lands that do not meet the definition of a forest.
Projects must provide evidence that the project activities occur in lands that have historically supported and can ecologically support forests.
Projects must demonstrate the project area does not include any areas that have experienced deforestation within the 10 years prior to Project initiation.
Projects must demonstrate that no project activities will occur in wetlands (e.g. peatlands, marshes, mangroves).
Projects must demonstrate that the project will not reforest any areas where reforestation is projected to have a net warming impact, inclusive of biome-specific uncertainty.
Projects should provide a description of forestry practices in order to demonstrate that they do not resemble commercial plantation practices.
Projects must provide justification that they are not occurring in a region where significant reforestation activities are driven by market demand, local and/or national incentives, or other forestry policies.
Projects must demonstrate that the project area is ≥ 1 hectare.
Projects must demonstrate that the project area is ≥ 1 hectare.
Projects must demonstrate that the project area is covered by one or more AGB data products that meet the eligibility guidelines as determined by Isometric.
Projects must demonstrate that the project area is ≥ 1 hectare.
Projects must provide a list of all rare, threatened, or endangered species and endemic species in the project area.
Projects must identify and describe the regional, natural ecosystems that contain and surround the project area.
Projects must document whether there are rare, threatened, or endangered ecosystems and habitats within the project area. If none are identified, provide the evidence of due diligence in arriving at this conclusion.
Projects must document and quantify all significant ecosystem services provided in the project region.
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 assess the impacts of project activities on Indigenous Peoples, in addition to the requirements of the stakeholder engagement plan.
Projects must identify and develop processes for the protection and promotion of community well-being.
Projects must demonstrate that they do not harm the quantity or quality of local water resources.
Projects must report if there is any use of synthetic herbicides or fertilizers for project establishment or project operations.
Projects must report if there is any use of synthetic pesticides for the control of non-native pests and/or invasive insect outbreaks for project establishment or project operations.
Projects must provide adaptive management plans for all foreseeable risks identified in the preparation of environmental and social impact assessments.
Projects must list all species of woody vegetation that will be planted and/or maintained as part of project activities.
If projects plant less than five species from two genera, projects must support this planting decision with scientific evidence rooted in literature and field studies that the region naturally supports less than the minimum species and genera required, in consultation with Isometric.
Projects must document the procurement and maintenance plan of its seedling and germplasm pipeline.
Projects must provide a description of planned reforestation activities. At a minimum, this must include all fertilizer use and animal interventions, as well as site preparation activities.
Projects must provide a detailed monitoring plan for the assessment of annual mortality rates.
Projects must provide a detailed plan for the reporting of forest thinning activities.
Projects must provide information on pre-project productivity.
Projects must provide the spatial extent of leakage mitigation and disclose full details of leakage mitigation activity.
Projects must quantify leakage and provide all supplementary information, required documentation, and evidence to support leakage estimations.
Projects must specify and justify the carbon fraction which will be used for the calculation of CO₂e in aboveground biomass.
Projects must specify the root-to-shoot ratio for calculation of carbon stored in belowground biomass.
Projects must complete and report the results of the reforestation risk assessment.
Projects must implement mandatory safeguards for all reforestation projects that must be in place at the start of the project and be 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.
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.