Project description

Carbon Limits prepared a comprehensive guidebook on designing domestic crediting schemes, as well as how to link those schemes to international carbon markets. 

The topics covered include:

•  Overarching policy & design questions (purpose, scope, use of offsets, standardized vs project-specific approaches)
• Governance approaches (institutions, oversight of auditors, legal mandates)
• Methodological elements (additionality, baselines, crediting periods, methodology development, permanence, co-benefits)
• Project cycle (approval, registration, validation, verification, crediting period renewal)
• MRV approaches
• Registry systems
• International linking (direct vs indirect, Art 6.2 vs 6.4, avoiding double counting, NDC links)
• Considerations for policy and sectoral crediting