Are non-renewable biomass projects eligible for Gold Standard certification?
No. Project activities making use of
non-renewable biomass resources shall NOT be eligible for Gold Standard
registration. Project developers shall, therefore, provide convincing evidence
that the project activities make use of renewable biomass resources. The renewability
of the biomass shall be monitored along the crediting period and be included in
the Monitoring Plan, where required by the applied Impact quantification
methodology.
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