Community guidelines for accessing forestry voluntary carbon ... - FAO

Community guidelines for accessing forestry voluntary carbon markets
Chapter 4:
Project implementation:
office work
This chapter’s objectives are to:
• Outline the documentation process for forestry VCM project
development (PIN, PD/PDD);
• Describe the information that must be covered in the different
documents.
These guidelines provide practical advice for generating financial benefits
through forestry VCM projects. Twenty years of experience have shown
that, in order to succeed, such projects must meet three key challenges:
1. Achieve reductions in carbon emissions or enhance removals by
sinks which are:
• measurable, and can be reported and verified;
• real and permanent.
This is the most basic measure of success. A forestry VCM project will
not generate revenue from the VCM unless it actually stores carbon
and/or reduces greenhouse gas emissions! This has to be proven by
measuring how many tons of carbon dioxide a forestry VCM project
has taken out of the atmosphere, or has prevented from being emitted.
This measurement must be done using a reliable and widely-recognized
method (according to the standards outlined in chapter 2).
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