VT0008 Additionality Assessment, v1.0

This tool provides procedures and requirements to assess the additionality of project activities, including 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 TOOL01 Tool for the Demonstration and Assessment of 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 additionality.

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 one of the following CDM tools may choose to apply VT0008, v1.0, until a revision of the underlying methodology is published:

• CDM TOOL01 Tool for the Demonstration and Assessment of Additionality (external)
• CDM TOOL19 Demonstration of Additionality of Microscale Project Activities (external)
• DM TOOL21 Demonstration of Additionality of Small-scale Project Activities (external)

Existing projects seeking to transition to VT0008, 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).