The Responsible Wool Standard (RWS) is a certification that recognizes best practices in wool production. The RWS certification includes strict criteria with a focus on animal welfare (nutrition, health, environmental infrastructure, behavior and handling); responsible land management (soil health, biodiversity, fertilizers and pesticides); and supply chain traceability from farm to final product. The OCS is […]
A summary of oral and written comments (and ADEQ responses to those comments) received during the public comment period.
Actual and imputed expenditures for activities aimed at the restoration of depleted or degraded natural systems, partly or completely counteracting the (accumulated) environmental impacts of economic activities. See also environmental restoration.
Restraint on Alienation is any limit on the ability of an owner to sell or transfer property.
See Manufacturing Restricted Substance List (MRSL).
Restriction is a limit on the owner’s ability to use the property. The limit may be contained in the deed and be binding on the land and future property owners.
Temporary containment for a material in an area where it can be treated for proper disposal.
To permanently remove carbon offsets from market to ensure that they are not re-sold. Offsets are usually retired by giving them individual serial numbers and placing them in an official registry.
When FMUs are transferred to a retirement account in the Climate Forward registry, they are considered retired. Retirement accounts are permanent and locked, so that a retired FMU cannot be transferred again. FMUs are retired when they have been used to mitigate an equivalent tonne of emissions or have been removed from further transactions on […]
The permanent removal of a VCU from circulation in the Verra Registry system which represents an offset of one metric tonne of CO2 equivalent
