Key Protocol Components

General requirements:

• Project Eligibility: Ecosystem Service Classification, Ecosystem Type

• Project rules and regulations

• GHG Removal and Emission Reduction Requirements

• Verification requirements

• Purchasing, Retiring, Selling credits

• Buffer Pool

• GHG accounting related requirements including permanence, leakage and additionality

• Compliance requirements

• General Co-Benefits that could apply

• Crediting Unit

• Crediting Term

• Project emissions

Measurement approach for developing monitoring reports:

• Methodology overview

• Definitions

• Baseline scenario

• Monitoring and measurement approach

• Specific Co-benefits

• Reporting - methods and cadence

• Uncertainty

NOTE: There may be the option to work with a protocol developer to ammend a protocol - specifically the measurement approach - to be more propoerly tailored to a specific project and the stakeholders engaged in that project management and implementation.