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Integrity Council approves Adipic Acid and further clean cookstove methodology versions

June 26, 2025June 23, 2025 Stuart Mitchell

The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market recently announced that the following methodologies and methodology versions meet its high-integrity Core Carbon Principles (CCPs), provided that certain conditions are met: Gold Standard – Reduced Emissions from Cooking and Heating – Technologies and Practices to Displace Decentralized Thermal Energy Consumption (TPDDTEC) version 2-3.1 (with conditions that require alignment with version 4) Climate Action Reserve – U.S Adipic Acid Production Protocol (with a condition on leakage) Climate Action Reserve – China Adipic Acid Production Protocol (no conditions required) The Integrity Council also announced that the…

Integrity Council confirms Isometric meets its high-integrity criteria

January 29, 2025December 12, 2024 Stuart Mitchell

Verra’s VM0047 ARR methodology also becomes CCP Approved in latest assessment decisions Isometric, a carbon crediting standard focused on carbon dioxide removal (CDR), has been approved as CCP-Eligible, the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market announced recently as it published its latest assessment decisions. Isometric joins ACR, ART, CAR, Gold Standard and Verra as the CCP-Eligible Programs under the ICVCM. CCP-Eligible status means the programs have demonstrated that they meet the rigorous Core Carbon Principles (CCP™) criteria for effective governance, transparency, tracking and robust independent third-party validation and…

Carbon credits from current renewable energy methodologies will not receive high-integrity CCP® label

September 23, 2024August 15, 2024 Stuart Mitchell

Integrity Council calls on carbon-crediting programs to raise the bar and develop improved methodologies for renewable energy projects. The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market announced recently that carbon credits issued under existing renewable energy methodologies, which account for nearly a third of the voluntary carbon market, will not be able to use its high-integrity CCP® (Core Carbon Principles) label. The Governing Board decided that eight methodologies used to design and implement renewable energy projects fail to meet the CCP Assessment Framework requirements on additionality because they are insufficiently…

Integrity Council appoints Amy Merrill as CEO

July 30, 2024June 20, 2024 Stuart Mitchell

The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market announced recently that Amy Merrill will become its first Chief Executive Officer. Amy has served as the Integrity Council’s interim Chief Operating Officer since December 2023 and since February 2023 has worked with the Integrity Council’s Executive Secretariat on secondment from her role as Senior Director and Head of Global Markets at Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES). She has steered the Integrity Council through a key period of growing support and recognition for its high-integrity Core Carbon Principles (CCPs). She…

Integrity Council announces first high-integrity CCP-labelled carbon credits, as assessments continue

July 16, 2024June 7, 2024 Stuart Mitchell

The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market recently announced the first carbon-crediting methodologies that meet its high-integrity Core Carbon Principles (CCPs). In the third of an ongoing series of assessment decisions, the Integrity Council approved seven carbon crediting methodologies. This means that the high-integrity CCP label can now be used on an estimated 27 million carbon credits issued by projects that tackle potent greenhouse gases by capturing methane from landfill sites and by destroying ozone-depleting foams and refrigerant gases from discarded equipment such as refrigerators and air conditioners. Another…