VT0009 Combined Baseline and Additionality Assessment, v1.0

This tool provides procedures and requirements for a combined approach to identifying the baseline scenario and assessing the additionality of project activities. It provides the following steps:

• Step 1: Identify alternatives to the project activity
• Step 2: Barrier analysis
• Step 3: Investment analysis
• Step 4: Common practice analysis

This tool was designed to replace CDM TOOL02 Combined Tool to Identify the Baseline Scenario and Demonstrate Additionality (external) for project activities under the VCS Program. It consolidates the procedures and requirements for the investment analysis, barrier analysis, and common practice analysis. It also aims to align with the Core Carbon Principle (CCP) requirements for additionally.

This tool must be used to assess additionality when required in the applicable methodology. Methodologies may have their own procedures, use only parts of this tool, or require a different tool.

Projects applying a methodology that uses CDM TOOL02 may choose to apply VT0009, v1.0, until a revision of the underlying methodology is published.

Existing projects seeking to transition to VT0009, v1.0, may do so by using a project description deviation as set out in Section 3.21.2(1) of the VCS Standard (PDF).