Arquivos: Glossário

Any organization, governmental entity, or individual that has a stake in or may be impacted by a given approach to environmental regulation, pollution prevention, energy conservation, etc.

An easily defined area of the forest that is relatively uniform in species composition or age and can be managed as a single unit.

The quantity of trees per unit area, usually evaluated in terms of basal area, crown cover and stocking.

Standard: A set of project design, monitoring, and reporting criteria against which carbon offsetting activities and/or projects’ environmental and social co-benefits can be certified or verified. Some standards certify/verify thousands of projects from a wide range of types and geographic locations, while others are specific to certain project types or geographic locations. For example, the […]

Statistical measure of the dispersion or scatter of a series of values. It is the square root of the variance, which is calculated as the sum of the squares of the deviations from the arithmetic mean, divided by the number of values in the series minus 1 .

Written procedure outlining the operation and maintenance of a dam and its appurtenant structures and equipment.

The standardised approach to counterparty credit risk is a measurement of counterparty credit risk that calculates the exposure at default of derivatives and long-settlement transactions. SA-CCR is intended to be a risk-sensitive methodology that differentiates between margined and non-margined trades and recognises netting benefits. In addition to measuring capital requirements directly for counterparty credit risk, […]

A baseline developed for a Party or a group of Parties, on a sub-national, national or group-of-countries basis rather than on a project basis, to facilitate the calculation of GHG emission reductions and removals by sinks and/or the determination of additionality for CDM project activities or PoAs, while providing assistance for assuring environmental integrity.

A methodological approach that standardizes elements of additionality and/or the crediting baseline, for a given class of project activity, via a performance method or activity method

A person with expertise and experience in standardized approaches to baselines and additionality, and who is approved by Verra for assessments of methodology elements that use standardized methods