Verra has published a revision to a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) methodology for thermal applications, Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) Program Methodology Revision VMR0011 Switch from Non-Renewable Biomass for Thermal Applications by the User VMR0011 includes the following changes to the CDM methodology: ✅ Standardizing key parameters, like the fraction of non-renewable biomass (fNRB) and adjusting for any leakage of non-renewable woody biomass, to ensure consistency across VCS Program methodologies ✅ Strengthening the methodology’s integrity by introducing a discount factor to account for uncertainty if fNRB is determined using CDM TOOL30 ✅ Establishing the leakage adjustment factor at validation Read more: https://bit.ly/3RNKvMr #Verra #StandardsMatter #ClimateChange #ClimateAction
Is someone doing a comparaison with the Clean Cooking Alliance (CCA) 4C Clear proposed methodology? https://cleancooking.org/4c/methodology/
Associate Professor en Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
2wAs the global default is 0.3 (global!?), expect every project to report 70-74%, which are values in the very high end of the distribution. i.e. only very few places on earth will be represented. We've been publishing about how very high fNRB values contradicts any model simulations, and now, any observable reality about agb dynamics, since a decade now. Don't trust the models, just use two agb maps (e.g. 2000 vs 2020) and divide the loss by the demand you are assuming for that country/region. (And this assumes that every single ton of agb was lost because of woodfuels harvest... 😬).