Project evaluations and recommendations are based on technical review, project documentation for registration and verification, site visits and additional due diligence questionnaires developed by Global Offset Research.
We seek a variety of domestic and international projects across a range of industries and protocols.
Due Diligence
Check if a project is truly additional
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Our research reveals that less than 5% of the projects issuing credits are truly additional.
The key questions we would ask are:
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Whether the project will be implemeted without funding from the sale of carbon credits?
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Whether climate change funding was considered before a decision was made to start the project?
Apply correct methodology
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We check whether the projects apply the correct methodological formulae and whether the emission reduction calculations correct and conservative.
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We do not support projects which use hypothetical baselines/suppressed demand approach for quantifying emission reductions.
Correct sampling and verification procedures followed
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We conduct site visits to confirm that the emission reduction claims are not exaggerated.
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Our verifcation approach confirms that selected samples are non biased and representative of the entire population.
