The deadline for submitting a proposal has been extended through May 17, 2024.
In addition, we reduced the minimum required meeting time by approximately 30 hours over a 12-month piloting period.
Please see the updated RFP (“Deliverables” and “Benefits for Successful Applicants” sections) for details.
Please contact scope3@verra.org if you have any questions or concerns about the RFP or these updates.
Verra has released a Request for Proposals (RFP) (PDF) for organizations that have an ongoing supply chain intervention project to support the development of its Scope 3 Standard (S3S) Program. Such interventions comprise activities or technologies implemented within a supply chain that affect the emissions footprint of a supply chain good or service. The supply chain intervention projects must employ project activities relevant to a methodology in Verra’s Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) Program.
Verra’s S3S Program aims to unlock immediate and large-scale investment in supply chain climate action. Version 1.0 of the program is expected to launch in 2025.
Successful applicants will help shape the design of the program and its first methodologies through providing substantial feedback. Participation in this pilot will provide the opportunity to learn from other pilot projects and engage with the latest proposals and ideas put forward by Verra’s Scope 3 Team and other stakeholders.
Organizations responding to the RFP will carry out two concurrent workstreams:
- Adapting an existing VCS methodology for the S3S Program: Selected organizations will adapt a relevant VCS methodology for the S3S Program by applying it to their ongoing supply chain intervention project. Verra will provide draft methodology adaptation guidance, on which we invite feedback during this process, and will also facilitate opportunities for pilot projects to collaborate on the methodology adaptation. (This draft guidance will become available toward the end of Q1 2024.) Please see below for a list of priority and excluded VCS methodologies.
- Piloting a preliminary version of the S3S Program and providing feedback on its design: Selected organizations will use an ongoing project to test the processes, technical design, usability, and infrastructure of a preliminary draft version of the S3S Program, and actively engage in a dynamic program development process. Verra will use the results of the piloting process to develop version 1.0 of the S3S Program.
Please submit proposals to Verra’s Scope 3 Team (scope3@verra.org) by close of business on April 26, 2024. After that date, the team will interview top candidates to discuss their proposals and answer clarifying questions. Verra plans to finalize the selection process in early May.
Note that this opportunity is not funded by Verra. Applicants will be expected to fund their own work and engagement in the methodology adaptation and piloting process.
- VM0022 Quantifying N2O Emissions Reductions in Agricultural Crops through Nitrogen Fertilizer Rate Reduction, v1.1
- VM0041 Methodology for the Reduction of Enteric Methane Emissions from Ruminants through the Use of Feed Ingredients, v2.0
- VM0042 Methodology for Improved Agricultural Land Management, v2.0
- VM0045 Methodology for Improved Forest Management Using Dynamic Matched Baselines from National Forest Inventories, v1.0
- VM0046 Methodology for Reducing Food Loss and Waste, v1.0
- VM0047 Afforestation, Reforestation, and Revegetation, v1.0
- CN0095 Methodology for Improved Efficiency of Fleet Vehicles and Combustion Engines
- CN0128 Revision to VM0043: Methodology for CO2 Utilization in Concrete Production, v1.0
- M0191 Methodology for Alternative Low Carbon Fuels in Shipping
- M0222 Revision to VM0038: Methodology for Electric Vehicle Charging Systems, v1.0 and VMD0049: Activity Method for Determining Additionality of Electric Vehicle Charging Systems, v1.0
Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) methodologies approved for use under the VCS Program may also be considered. Active approved CDM methodologies are listed on Verra’s Methodologies webpage under “Active CDM and CAR Methodologies.” Proposals to adapt a VCS-approved CDM methodology must justify why a proponent wants to use this CDM methodology instead of a VCS methodology, and how the methodology is suitable for S3S Program adaptation.
All VCS methodologies covering avoided conversion project activities will be excluded from the initial round of adaptation:
- VM0004 Methodology for Avoided Planned Land Use Conversion in Peat Swamp Forests, v2.0
- VM0010 Methodology for Improved Forest Management Conversion from Logged to Protected Forest, v1.3
- VM0011 Methodology for Calculating GHG Benefits from Preventing Planned Degradation, v1.0
All current REDD methodologies (VM0006, VM0007, VM0015) will be excluded from adaptation due to the transition to Verra’s new REDD methodology, which will not be ready to implement for adaptation for the Scope 3 Standard Program in 2024.
Note: These methodologies will not necessarily be excluded from use in the Scope 3 Standard Program.
