reductions or credits - livestock project; for removals voluntary projects: instance: achieved under offset ARB’s credits It must be ODS baselines Compliance issued by an demonstrated estimate GHG Offset Protocols approved that the emissions (methodologies third party activity is within the approved by he registry beyond project Board). prior to boundary that ARB would have Californian law the occurred in the requires that for physical absence of the compliance offsets used for depth of the project. compliance issuance anaerobic livestock must be real, lagoons or digester additional, ARB offset ponds prior baselines quantifiable, credits can only to estimate GHG verifiable, be earned by emissions permanent and activities not were resulting from enforceable. covered under sufficient to the installation These criteria the cap. prevent the of biogas are met through activity from control the: ARB offset occurring systems that projects must anyway. capture and For new destroy design of the use an approved regulation methodology. livestock methane from use of There are four projects, it livestock can be operations. areas covered: demonstrated urban forestry that the baselines urban forestry project estimate the activity is not amount of US forestry common carbon use of livestock accredited digesters practice in sequestered in third-party the industry eligible project destruction verification of and trees, minus bodies and geographic emissions from region. the planting, verifiers substances ARB review (ODS), care and of offset The ODS maintenance of which project relates destruction those trees specifically methodology over the reporting related to to Montreal adds an reporting Protocol additional period. and criteria to the US Forest gases. baselines verification. standard can only calculate the A mine be undertaken by onsite carbon methane capture
reductions or removals achieved under ARB’s Compliance Offset Protocols (methodologies approved by he Board). Californian law requires that offsets used for compliance must be real, additional, quantifiable, verifiable, permanent and enforceable. These criteria are met through the: design of the regulation use of use of accredited third-party verification bodies and verifiers ARB review of offset project related to reporting and verification. credits - voluntary offset credits issued by an approved third party registry prior to ARB for compliance issuance ARB offset credits can only be earned by activities not covered under the cap. ARB offset projects must use an approved methodology. There are four areas covered: urban forestry US forestry livestock digesters destruction of substances (ODS), which relates specifically to Montreal Protocol gases. A mine methane capture livestock projects: It must be demonstrated that the activity is beyond the physical depth of the anaerobic lagoons or ponds prior to were sufficient to prevent the activity from occurring anyway. For new livestock projects, it can be demonstrated that the project activity is not common practice in the industry and geographic region. The ODS destruction methodology adds an additional criteria to the standard can only be undertaken by project; for instance: ODS baselines estimate GHG emissions within the project boundary that would have occurred in the absence of the project. livestock digester baselines estimate GHG emissions resulting from the installation of biogas control systems that capture and destroy methane from livestock operations. urban forestry baselines estimate the amount of carbon sequestered in eligible project trees, minus emissions from the planting, care and maintenance of those trees over the reporting period. US Forest baselines calculate the onsite carbon
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