What are the six main critical issues for hydro projects to address?

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  Yes. All hydro projects (including micro-scale hydro projects) are required to address the six critical issues in the project documentation.

• What is the purpose of this rule update?

  REQUIREMENTS FOR PROJECTS TO TRANSITION FROM OTHER SCHEMES TO GOLD STANDARD FOR GLOBAL GOALS Eligibility requirements have been updated for all projects seeking to transition to GS4GG for the issuance of Gold Standard Verified Emission Reductions ...

• How can Gold Standard Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects be converted into Gold Standard Verified Emission Reductions (VER) projects?

  Apart from converting issued Gold Standard Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) into Gold Standard VERs, guidelines for transitioning from CDM/Gold Standard CDM to Gold Standard VER projects are also available within the “Emissions Reduction & ...

• Do Land Use and Forestry (LUF) projects need to contribute to the Compliance Buffer?

  Yes. All LUF projects must contribute 20% of their emission reduction issuance to a pooled Compliance Buffer to deal with the risk of non-permanence. Projects with activities resulting in avoided emissions do not need to contribute to the Compliance ...

• Does Gold Standard check the additionality of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)-registered projects?

  Additionality is a defining concept of carbon-offset projects. To qualify as a genuine carbon offset, the reductions achieved by a project need to be ‘additional’ to what would have happened if the project had not been carried out (e.g. continued as ...