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

Chapter 3: Getting started
• Social and environmental impacts: A summary of the potential
impacts, including results of Environmental and Social Impact
Assessments.
• Account of the stakeholder consultation: A summary of
comments and contributions received during the stakeholder
consultation process, as well as the mechanism for continuing
communication
• Review of timelines and schedule: Steps in the project cycle
and reporting procedures.
• Ownership of the project: Who owns the project, and who
has the right to benefit from it. Clear details on land tenure,
land use rights and the delineation of the project boundary.
4.1.6 Validation & registration
Validation is the term used for the assessment of the methodology and
the PD/PDD.
Regarding the methodology:
There are very stringent rules governing how the validation must be
done. This validation process is governed by the standard body itself, in
the sense that they only ‘accredit’ (authorize) experts or companies to
conduct the validation assessment if they have the right credentials in
the relevant technical fields. Once the validation process is completed
and the methodology is approved and registered, it is made available
for use by any suitable projects, not only by the developer. Approved
methodologies are uploaded onto the websites of the CDM and the VCS.
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