Sentences with phrase «buffer pool»

However, the American Carbon Registry approach to buffer pool requirements is flexible as it allows for other insurance mechanisms, including the contribution of non-forest offsets as insurance.

, for example, employs a number of steps — screening, third - party validation and verification — as well as a buffer pool, independent registry listing and validation against international standards.

This buffer pool is reserved to «back up» project performance, and it is designed so that we are likely to retire more tons that we have actually sold.

Whilst there will always be some margin for error and projects may not perform as expected, the best carbon offset programs mitigate the risk by establishing a «buffer pool» — a portion of offsets held in reserve to cover any potential underperformance or impermanence issues.

To date, the primary risk - mitigation mechanism for forest carbon projects has been the buffer pool, a model pioneered by Winrock International and now employed by all major carbon offset programs including ACR.

Companies who use the Carbon Reduction Guarantee product are not required to make buffer pool contributions, so they can retain and sell all forest carbon offsets from their project at the attractive prices these often secure today.

Companies registering forest carbon projects on ACR now have the flexibility to use the risk - mitigation product to guarantee their projects against unforeseeable environmental threats or «reversals» in lieu of making contributions to a buffer pool.

Indexes consume buffer pool space, yes.

Not exact matches

Buffer makes all salaries, and how it determines them, public; when it published that formula, its job applicant pool more than doubled.

CDOs work by layering the claims on a pool of mortgages into tranches that give the senior claims a buffer against losses.

When dietary consumption patterns provide insufficient buffering capacity, body buffering mineral pools can be depleted and the intracellular environment becomes acidotic.

The skeletal musculature has a sizeable pool of free amino acids which can buffer low levels of certain amino acids until the next meal.

For example, NCB Development Corporation used its $ 6.4 million grant to create the Charter School Capital Access Program; the grant dollars comprise a «first loss reserve» - money that serves as a buffer for lenders in case payments fall through - on a $ 45 million loan pool that NCB and the Reinvestment Fund raised from large financial institutions.

So there's this effective pool of money they can use to buffer against large losses with; it's called float.

The conservation area covers around 39,000 hectares of threatened Miombo woodland in Lusaka Province and acts as an important buffer zone to the Lower Zambezi National Park and the adjacent Mana Pools National Park.

Of course a swimming pool is a closed system, but the idea and importance of buffering can be demonstrated in a properly balanced pool.

In contrast, women report wanting male friends more for social and physical protection (a «buffer» from the potentially creepy / dangerous men in the dating pool), although women also report wanting this kind of protection from their female friends as well.