Sentences with phrase «test of additionality»

Although some early forest offsets were criticized for failing to meet the key tests of additionality, permanence and leakage, renewed interest in forest conservation has led to improved monitoring.

Not exact matches

We've done projects in South America where we've been testing scientific issues that are some of the bugaboos of forest carbon, including things like leakage, additionality, and permanence.

This technical document clarifies the concept of additionality and its significance for crediting mechanisms; describes the different approaches that have been used to demonstrate or test additionality; and explores the implications of the evolving carbon markets on the application and importance of additionality.

Despite an oversupply of credits and waning confidence in the CDM from both market players and civil society watchdogs, the report presented an optimistic and biased view of the CDM and its future while failing to recommend concrete solutions to address some of its fundamental flaws, such as additionality testing.

As a preliminary test of this theory, I compare the latest data on the magnitude, distribution and financial «additionality» of climate funds and carbon markets.

As a firm believer in the concept of additionality - basically, would the proposed renewable energy project have happened under «business as usual» conditions - he explained that offsets would only gain the upper hand through: «public perception (from closer press scrutiny of REC financial figures); possible consumer fraud lawsuits testing deceptive marketing statutes; and perhaps most importantly a thriving domestic offset market built around regional climate schemes such as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, AB 32 in California, the Western Climate Initiative, and possibly a national cap - and - trade scheme down the road.»