1. Project Carbon Accounting
Credibility Assessment
Joint GTZ/ISEAL Workshop
Bonn, Germany – 28 October 2010
Henk van Rikxoort

2. AGENDA
 Background
 Assessed Standards
 Approach
 Results – Performance
 Results – Compliance level
 Conclusions
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3. BACKGROUND
 Collaboration of ISEAL & GTZ on CC mitigation
 Ecofys commissioned to map Climate Assurance Systems
 Results refined by ISEAL & GTZ in report: “Accounting for
Carbon: Mapping the Landscape of Climate Assurance
Systems”.
 Additional research needed to assess to what extend
Project Carbon Standards comply with ISEAL code
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4. ASSESSED
 7 Project Carbon Standards examined:
 Carbon Fix
 VCS-AFOLU
 CDM
 Plan Vivo
 CCBS
 Social Carbon
 ISO 14064-2
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5. APPROACH
 ISEAL Credibility principles:
 Clear Objectives and Scope
 Transparency
 Multi-stakeholder
 Local Applicability and Global
Consistency
 Accessibility
 Complaints and Appeals
 Inter-operability
 Indicators developed
 Traffic light assessment
system used
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6. RESULTS – PERFORMANCE
• Clear Objectives and • Transparency
Scope
• Local Applicability and • Multi-stakeholder
Global Consistency
• Complaints and Appeals • Accessibility
• Inter-operability
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7. RESULTS – COMPLIANCE LEVEL
Carbon Fix (+)
• Certify carbon credits
VCS-AFOLU (+)
• Possess accounting methodologies
CDM (-)
Plan Vivo (-)
• Approve accounting methodologies
CCBS (+)
• Are add-on standards
Social Carbon (-)
• Evaluate the social and environmental
situation of carbon projects
• Offers a general framework
ISO 14064-2 • Should be used in combination with
or as a basis for other standards
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8. CONCLUSIONS
 Results should be used as a guideline
 Within the groups better performing standards can be
identified
 Combined with individual and collective needs of ISEAL
members, basis for decision whether to apply and/or
collaborate with Carbon Accounting Standards or not
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9. gtz
Henk van Rikxoort
Consultant – Agriculture and Climate Change
Wageningen
The Netherlands
Mobile Europe +31618187108
E-mail henk.vanrikxoort@wur.nl
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