How can carbon-crediting programs apply for assessment against the Core Carbon Principles (CCPs)?

Carbon-crediting programs issuing credits that are traded on the voluntary carbon market can now apply for CCP assessment, which will confirm whether they meet the program criteria set out in the Assessment Framework. 

We’ve designed a streamlined process for programs that are already approved as CORSIA-Eligible. To be CCP-eligible, programs that are already CORSIA-approved only need to provide evidence that they meet the CCP’s additional high-integrity criteria around effective governance, credit tracking, transparency and robust, independent third-party validation and verification. 

If a program isn’t already approved as eligible for CORSIA, that program can still apply for assessment, but it will need to provide evidence that it meets both the CORSIA requirements as well as the additional CCP criteria.  

All programs regardless of CORSIA status will have to provide evidence that they meet the criteria for other CCPs including, but not limited to, sustainable development benefits and safeguards, no double-counting and robust quantification. Read more about the CCP criteria here. 

Once a program has been assessed as CCP-eligible, it can then apply CCP labels from categories that have already been CCP-approved and to additional categories as they become approved.

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For the process of assessing whether those applying to become CCP-labelled are a “program” under ICVCM terminology, we ask potential programs to answer the following two questions:

1. Does your organisation develop and maintain a Standard that is used to register/approve mitigation activities?   > Please provide the name of the Standard and a link to the Standard documents. 
2. Does your organisation issue carbon credits from mitigation activities following this named Standard?  > Please provide a link to the registry containing the mitigation activities and carbon credits generated via your program. 

This is asked as part of the assessment process. If your organisation can meet these requirements and prove them, it is likely that you will be considered as a program. 

Programs will then be invited to complete an application via the Assessment Platform and submit evidence and documentation to show how they meet the criteria.

The assessment process is estimated to take approximately two months for CORSIA-eligible programs and four months for non-CORSIA programs, subject to operational considerations.