Which types of programs are required to follow the updated Usage Requirements?
As of 1 January,
2021, all of the following new and registered projects and Programmes of
Activities (PoAs)/VPAs shall be required to apply the Usage Requirements:
- Implementation/operation
of:
- Household
biogas digesters and/or
- Improved cooking devices
AND that apply- Gold Standard’s Technologies and Practices to Displace Decentralized Thermal Energy Consumption (TPDDTEC) methodology,
- The ADALYs methodology, and/or
- Black Carbon methodology
Please note that registered projects and PoA/VPAs involving household
biogas digesters, with monitoring periods after 26/10/2021, must demonstrate
compliance with Usage Requirements v.2.0. The project/PoA/VPAs can submit the
revised monitoring plan with issuance requests submitted before 26/10/2021.