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SOCIALCARBON Standard
Guide for certification of carbon offset projects
March, 2011
SOCIALCARBON criteria
Project developers establish a baseline using the standard's assessment tools.
Developers must then demonstrate improvements in relation to this baseline through
SOCIALCARBON monitoring reports that are independently verified by certifying
entities.
Continual
improvement
MRV for co-benefits
Verified by:
2 - Report
3- Verify
1 -Measure
How does it work?
1 - Use of six basic resources:
Social, Human, Financial,
Natural, Biodiversity and Carbon.
2 - The indicators have a score
beginning at the most precarious
scenario (level 1) and ending at
the ideal situation (sustainable
use of resource – level 6).
3 - All the data is collected
through participative methods
(interviews, questionnaires and
meetings with stakeholders).
Indicator
1
Education
High degree
of
4 -The average
score
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among older
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Few people
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have acquired
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professional
skills.
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Some
illiteracy.
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6
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SOCIALCARBON: Project Cycle
Feasibility Study
UNFCCC & VCS
METHODOLOGIES
VCS_PDD
SOCIAL CARBON
REPORT (POINT ZERO)
D.O.E. VALIDATION
D.O.E. VALIDATION
MONITORING
MONITORING & ACTION
PLAN
D.O.E. VERIFICATION
D.O.E. VERFICATION
(POINT ONE)
Carbon Accounting
SOCIALCARBON
STANDARD &
INDICATORS
Sustainability
DOCUMENTS AND
STATESMENT ISSUANCE
PAYMENT OF
VCS LEVY
REGISTRATION INTO
MARKIT REGISTRY
PAYMENT OF
SOCIALCARBON LEVY
Project Cycle
Selection of
baseline and
monitoring
methodologies
Stage
1
SOCIALCARBON Cycle
Selection of SOCIALCARBON indicators
Documents and guidance: Template and guidance for
adapting and creating new indicators + SOCIALCARBON
manual for forest projects: www.socialcarbon.org
Project Cycle
Project Design
Document
(PDD)
Stage
2
SOCIALCARBON Cycle
Elaboration of SOCIALCARBON Report - Collect data used to
score the indicators and summarize it in a Report.
Documents and guidance: Template and guidance for
elaborating SOCIALCARBON Reports (SCR) + SOCIALCARBON
manual for forest projects: www.socialcarbon.org
Indicator 1: POPULATION DISPLACEMENT
Questions
No
Only Families
Have families or activities been
Only Activities
displaced by the project?
Yes, both families and activities
Yes, all of them
If yes, did they receive any
Yes, but only part of the families and
compensation or mitigation measures?
activities
No
By the project proponent
By the government
How was the compensation defined?
Through a consultation with the
displaced people
Don’t know
Are the people who received the
Partially, some people are dissatisfied
compensation or mitigation measures
Yes, programs reestablished previous life
satisfied?
conditions
Comments, responses and
perspectives for improvement
Questionnaires
Interviews
Public meetings
Documents
Site visit
Who should be included in the assessment?
Proponent
MAVI
South Pole
Project
Fuel-switching projects
for small industries that
produce tiles and bricks
Hydropower Plant
Bundling Hydropower
Plant project
Forest project
Stakeholders involved
Includes project owner and
employees.
Environmental and public
education agencies, village
residents, village head man and
employees
Includes project owner, workers
and leaders of the local villages,
local NGO, households.
Village residents and leaders.
SOCIALCARBON Report
Evidence: Site visits| Questionnaires | | Public meetings | Documents | Interviews
Project Cycle
Validation
Stage
3
SOCIALCARBON Cycle
Validation of the SOCIALCARBON Report – Is an independent
process from the PDD, but DOEs can complete the validation
and verification procedure both for PDD + SOCIALCARBON
Reports at the same time.
Documents: Validators are free to develop their own methods
for auditing SCR and Validation Report forma
Project Cycle
Monitoring &
Verification
Stage
4
SOCIALCARBON Cycle
Monitoring and verification – elaborate annual SOCIALCARBON
Reports and submit them to independent.
After the first commercialization of carbon credits, project
proponents:
•
Must demonstrate goals for continual improvement of
project’s sustainability and provide evidence that they are
being achieved.
• Will not be allowed to present a decrease in the same
aspect for two consecutive monitoring periods.
• Flexible, Practical: Continual
Improvement (PDCA)
• Adding sustainability to the
projects, not selecting sustainable
projects
• Bottom-Up not Top-Down: Local
priorities -> long term
sustainability
Verified by:
Project Cycle
Issuance
Stage
5
SOCIALCARBON Cycle
Issuance at Markit Environmental Registry. After issuance
credits can be transferred to other registries (e.g. APX, CDC,
etc.)
Documents and guidance: Procedures for issuance of
SOCIALCARBON credits at Markit Environmental Registry.
Costs– Financial analysis
Thank you!
Cecília Michellis
[email protected]
www.socialcarbon.org