What are the Core Carbon Principles and the Assessment Framework?

The Core Carbon Principles (CCPs) are ten fundamental, science-based principles for identifying high-quality carbon credits that create real, verifiable climate impact. Developed with input from hundreds of organisations, they set a global benchmark for high integrity in the voluntary carbon market to raise it to a consistent level of quality and ensure it accelerates progress towards the 1.5°C target.

The Assessment Framework sets out the detailed criteria we will use to assess whether carbon-crediting programs and Categories of carbon credits meet the CCPs. It sets a robust, achievable threshold that aims to raise standards across the voluntary carbon market to a consistent level of quality.