Full Title: Core Carbon Principles, Assessment Framework and Assessment Procedure
Author(s): The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market
Publisher(s): The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market
Publication Date: March 28, 2023
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Description (excerpt):
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (Integrity Council or ICVCM) is an independent governance body for the voluntary carbon market (VCM). Its purpose is to ensure that voluntary carbon markets accelerate progress toward the objective of combatting climate change. It will set and enforce a global threshold standard for carbon credit quality, drawing on the best science and expertise available, with a view to also ensuring that high quality carbon credits efficiently mobilize finance towards urgent climate action.
This publication includes the Program-level criteria of the Assessment Framework and the Assessment Procedure. This will enable carbon-crediting programs to better understand the Integrity Council process and the operational requirements against which they will be assessed if they apply to the Integrity Council.