Additionality & baseline
What evidence supports an outcome beyond what would otherwise have happened?
QUALITY & INTEGRITY
Ask for evidence.
Keep asking.
A practical starting point for a project review, rather than a quality rating or certification.
ICVCM provides a ten-principle benchmark. Program eligibility and approval of the relevant category or methodology are separate parts of its assessment. Confirm the actual credit’s status rather than relying on a program name. [1] ICVCM [2] ICVCM
Quantification
Which methodology, assumptions, deductions and uncertainties determine the credited volume?
Permanence & reversals
How long is storage expected to last, and how are losses monitored and addressed?
Independent verification
Who validated and verified the activity, and where are their reports?
Ownership & double counting
Can you identify the registry, serial numbers, vintage and retirement beneficiary?
People & safeguards
Where are consent, benefit-sharing, grievance and environmental safeguard records?
A project type is not a quality verdict.
Nature-based, engineered, reduction and removal approaches each require project-specific evidence. No credit is approved by this website.
Record your evidence gaps in the planner