Methodologies

Methodologies Under Development

Open for Public Comment

No methodologies are currently open for public comment

First Assessment

AFOLU Project Market Leakage

Improved Forest Management in Boreal Production Forests

Methodology to Reduce Enteric Methane Emissions in Beef Cattle using Organic or Natural Feed Supplements

Methodology for Greenhouse Gas Capture and Utilization in Plastic Materials

Methodology for Time-Shifted Electricity Consumption Targeting Less Carbon-Intensive Generation

Second Assessment

Avoiding Planned Deforestation of Undrained Peat Swamp Forests

Methodology for Pavement Application using Foam Stabilized Base (FSB)

REDD+ Methodology Framework (REDD+MF), v1.6

Inactive

Revisions to approved baseline and monitoring methodology ACM0017 “Production of biodiesel for use as fuel” and “Tool to calculate the emission factor for a petroleum distribution system”

Quantification Methodology for Underbalanced Drilling with Natural Gas and Formation Gas Recovery

Revision to “Approved consolidated baseline and monitoring methodology ACM0002”

Methodology for Fuel Switch to Renewable Biomass for Thermal Applications

Methodology for Determining GHG Emission Reductions Through Bicycle Sharing Projects

Revisions to AM0090 to Include Conveyor Belt Transportation

Destruction of Fluoroform (HFC-23) Waste Gas Streams

Improved Forest Management on Lands Subject to Unextiguished Indigenous Rights and Title (LtPF)

Tool for the Demonstration and Assessment of Additionality in VCS IFM Project Activities on Lands Subject to Unextinguished Indigenous Rights and Title

General Methodology for Quantifying the Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions from the Production and Incorporation of Soil of Biochar in Agricultural and Forest Management Systems

Avoided Planned Conversion of Grasslands and Shrublands to Crop Production

Afforestation/Reforestation of Agricultural Lands

Methodology for Agricultural Land Management: Improved Grassland Management

Methodology for Improved Forest Management in Non-industrial Private Forests

Calculating Emission Reductions in Rice Management Systems

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Landscape Standard

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