# 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. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://handbook.regen.network/credit-type/key-protocol-components.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.