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The Guardian is an innovative open-source platform that streamlines the creation, management, and verification of digital environmental assets. It leverages a customizable Policy Workflow Engine and Web3 technology to ensure transparent and fraud-proof operations, making it a key tool for transforming sustainability practices and carbon markets.
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Climate Action Reserve (CAR) U.S. Urban Forest Management #3709

Open prernaadev01 opened 3 months ago

prernaadev01 commented 3 months ago

Problem description

Urban forests have two additional, indirect effects on atmospheric CO2 and other greenhouse gases (e.g. methane, nitrous oxide). First, trees around buildings can reduce heating and air conditioning use (Abdollahi et al. 2000), thereby reducing emissions of GHGs associated with the consumption of electricity, natural gas, and fuel oil. Second, normally when trees die, the stored carbon is released into the atmosphere through decomposition. However, if the biomass from removed trees is used as feedstock for power plants, GHG emissions that would have occurred with other fuel sources are displaced. These indirect benefits may be quantified and reported as cobenefits to the GHG tree project. However, the Reserve does not issue Climate Reserve Tonnes (CRTs) for indirect GHG emission reductions.

Requirements

  1. Creating Schema design for this methodology.
  2. Development of the schema and policy.
  3. Testing the policy development through Guardian UI and configurator.

Definition of done

  1. Policy is designed and developed and approved after testing.
  2. Policy file is added in Github repo.
  3. Policy is documented with complete detailed Step By Step process.
  4. IPFS timestamp is created for Policy file.

Acceptance criteria

Methodology is completed with detailed testing and approvals.

dubgeis commented 1 month ago

Suggestion from CAR to change to Mexico Forest Protocol or another more utilized