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.
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.
Projects must justify the wastewater treatment plant's (WWTP) applicability under the current protocol.
Projects must outline any additional details that deviate from what is described in the Project Design.
Projects must describe and outline an adaptive management plan including information sharing, emergency response, and conditions for stopping or pausing alkaline feedstock dosing.
If applicable, projects must describe how counterfactual weathering of feedstock is accounted for.
Projects must describe how the counterfactual CDR is quantified.
Projects must demonstrate there is no feedstock accumulation in the system, either through sludge sampling devices or during routine cleaning and maintenance of the bioreactors. Projects must justify the frequency of these measurements.
Projects must explain how a validation check will be conducted to ensure agreement between the results of Option 1 and Option 2, as well as justify the frequency of this check.
Projects must provide an estimate for the upper limit for CO2e_Stored.
Projects must describe their approach to quantifying river and ocean losses relevant to the Project.
Projects must describe the approach to quantifying losses due to re-equilibration of DIC in the near field.
Projects must describe the approach to quantifying losses due to carbonate precipitation in the near field.
Projects must describe the approach to quantifying losses due to natural alkalinity flux reduction in the near field.
Projects must describe the approach to quantifying losses due to biotic calcification in the near field.
If applicable, Projects must describe the approach to quantifying losses due to outgassing during river transport.
For river discharge, Projects must describe the approach to quantifying losses due to outgassing upon entering the ocean.
Projects must describe how effluent concentrations of key nutrients will not be increased beyond the standard range for the wastewater treatment plant.
Projects must describe how they will ensure compliance with existing WWTP permits.
Projects must describe how WWTP energy consumption above BAU is calculated.
Projects must provide a summary of the full monitoring plan.
Projects must describe a tailored biological and ecological monitoring plan if determined as necessary from the Environmental risk assessment and mitigation strategy.
Projects must submit proof of an official partnership with the partner wastewater treatment facility. Evidence can include an MoU, written consent, or agreements with relevant parties.
Projects must describe the quantification approach for Option 1 (solid phase) and specify if this will be used as the primary quantification method.
Projects must describe the quantification approach for Option 2 (aqueous phase) and specify if this will be used as the primary quantification method.
Projects must provide a site description of the discharge location, including the dominant circulation and modes of variability, as well as the frequency of various environmental conditions.
Projects must develop a conceptual model of dispersion of discharge, and produce a mixing zone model, which will likely already be a part of the existing WWTP discharge permit.
Projects must have sufficient plans for restoring water quality conditions prior to discharge in the event that negative environmental impacts result from project activities.
Projects must provide information on how dosing rate is calculated, including any partner data that was used in those calculations.
Projects must provide the information on the WWTP business as usual operations.
Projects must designate the control volume boundaries for the project, including the control volume in L.