CarbonVerde
Forest Carbon Project Activity and Standards Competencies
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Project Consulting Competency
CarbonVerde has experience providing comprehensive consulting in all project development activities, including:
- Eligibility Assessments
- Market Feasibility Studies
- Carbon Market Prospectus Development
- Project Design Documents
- Establishing Carbon Baselines
- Carbon Stock Reduction and Removal Quantification
- Building Carbon Accounting Systems
- Permanence and Leakage Assessment
- Reversal Risk and Reserve/Buffer Assessment
- Forest Vegetation Simulator Growth Modeling
- Project Management from Validation to Registration of Emission Reductions
- Investment Capital Sourcing
- Quantifying and Reporting the GHG Emission Registration
- Validation and Verification Preparation
- Environmental Management Systems Implementation
Forest Project and Strategic GHG Standards Competency
CarbonVerde has experience working on all standards listed below; providing strategic advise on the application of current voluntary and emerging compliance market standards to specific project types in the United States and Internationally.
- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and degradation in developing countries: a sourcebook of methods and procedures for monitoring, measuring, and reporting, GOFC-GOLD 2008.
- Good Practice Guidance for Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry, IPCC 2006.
- Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS) AFOLU standards, 2007.1, November 18, 2008
- Climate Action Reserve (CAR) Forestry Protocol, Version 3.1, October 22, 2009
- American Carbon Registry (ACR), Forestry Protocol Version 1.0, March 2009
- Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) Forestry Protocol, August 2009
- Community, Climate and Biodiversity Alliance (CCB), Second Edition, November 2008
- Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) forest management standards
- Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) Program standards
- American Forest Foundation (AFF) Standards for Sustainability.
- ISO 14065: 2007 Greenhouse gases – Requirements for greenhouse gas validation and verification for use in accreditation or other forms of recognition.
- ISO 14064 Part 2: 2006 Specification with guidance at the project level for quantification, monitoring and reporting of greenhouse gas emission reductions or removal enhancements.
- ISO 14064 Part 3: 2006 Specification with guidance for the validation and verification of greenhouse gas assertions.
- ISO 14001:2004 Environmental management systems – Requirements with guidance for use.
- ISO 19011:2002 Guidelines for quality and/or environmental management systems auditing.