Launch of CCB Standards Third Edition

10.00-11.00 EST12th December 2013Webinar

Webinar agenda• Introduction to the CCB Standards and the revision process

– Joanna Durbin, CCBA

• Overview of the Third Edition – Priti Narasimhan, CCBA

• Overview of the Rules for the Use of CCB Standards – Gareth Wishart, CCBA

• Reaction from users of the CCB Standards – Vasco van Roosmalen – Equipe de Conservação da Amazônia– Christian Dannecker – South Pole Group– Jeffrey Hayward – Rainforest Alliance

• Questions and discussion

The Climate, Community & Biodiversity Alliance

Alliance Members

Identify and promote land management projects that deliver credible and significant climate, community and biodiversity benefits.

Build support for government-led programs to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) that make a significant contribution to human rights, poverty alleviation and biodiversity conservation.

The most widely used multiple-benefit standard• 78 projects validated and 15 verified to CCB Standards in 34 countries• 16% of all credits traded in the voluntary carbon market in 2012 (although

CCB only used for land-based) • 78% of forest carbon credits using a multiple benefit standard used CCB

Standards - Ecosystem Marketplace ‘State of Voluntary Carbon Market 2013’ and ‘State of Forest Carbon Market 2013’

CCB Standards system for quality assurance

• Publication of documents

• Public comments• CCB Status

• CCB Label for credits issued from projects verified to CCB Standards

• No credits listed on CCB Standards alone

• Process for validation & verification

• 5 years maximum between audits

• Approved Auditors

• Criteria and indicators• Optional Gold Level criteria• Glossary – definition of terms

CCB Standards

Rules for Use

CCBA website

Registries

Process for CCB Standards revisionAug-Oct 2012: case studies of smallholder and community-led projects, interviews with offset buyers and investors, workshop in Addis Ababa

Nov-Dec 2012: publish terms of reference for the revision and nominations for CCB Standards Committee

Jan-Mar 2013: create CCB Standards Committee, prepare draft Third Edition, survey Standards users

Mar-May 2013: first public comment period, respond to comments, prepare draft Rules

Jul-Sep 2013: second public comment period for Standards and Rules

Oct-Nov 2013: finalize Standards and Rules, respond to comments

Dec 2013: launch CCB Standards Third Edition and Rules

Indigenous peoples & Community OrganizationsKanyinke Sena (United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues)Juan Carlos Jintiach (COICA)Nigel Hughes (Green Light Trust)Ambrosius Ruwidrijanto (Telapak)

Buyers, Investors & Private sector

Johannes Ebeling (BioCarbon Macquarie Global Investments)Brian McFarland (Carbonfund.org)David Lloyd (Carbon neutral company)Helen Crowley (PPR/Kering)Edit Kiss (Eneco)

Quality Assurers Yaw Kwakye (Forestry Commission Ghana)Felix Ya Mbumba (Ministry of Environment CNT, DRC)Jane Dunlop (FFI)Charlie Parker (WWF)Sebastian Hetsch (TUV SUD Industrie Service GmbH)Christie Pollet-Young (SCS Global Services)Carolyn Ching (VCS)

Project ProponentsJenny Henman (Plant your future)Jeremy Freund (Wildlife Works Carbon LLC)Christian Dannecker (South Pole Group)Sarah M. Walker (Winrock International)Rebecca Dickson (TerraCarbon LLC)

Experts

Henry Neufeldt (ICRAF)Pam Jagger (CIFOR)Bastiaan Louman (CATIE)Seth Shames (Ecoagriculture Partners)

Implementing Agency

Nicole Virgilio (The Nature Conservancy)Tom Evans (Wildlife Conservation Society)Jeff Hayward (Rainforest Alliance)

Overview of CCB Standards Third EditionPriti Narasimhan, CCBA

Structural changes

• Maintains original structure

• Reorganization of indicators/sub sections

• 20 criteria including 3 optional Gold Level criteria

• Net positive climate, community and biodiversity benefits

• Climate section waiver

Strategic changes

• Supports smallholder- and community-led projects– Community Gold level– Programmatic approach

• Strengthens Gold Levels• Strengthens gender• Clarifies stakeholder engagement

– Full and effective participation– Feedback and Grievance Redress Procedure– Free, Prior and Informed Consent

Other Changes : Indicators and definitions

• Boundaries of the project: Project Area, Project Zone• Communities and Community Groups• Theory of change• New indicators

– Anti-discrimination– Anti-corruption– Use of fertilizers, chemical pesticides and biological control

agents– Handling of waste from the project

Guidance Document

• Primarily for smallholder- and community-led projects

• Clarify concepts and requirements in Third Edition

• To be completed by March 31st 2014

Issues

Description of project

Underlying fundamentals

Without-project Scenario and additionality

Programmatic approach

Positive climate, community and biodiversity benefits

Gold level in climate, community and biodiversity sections

High conservation values

Stakeholder engagement & FPIC

Risk management and transparency

Overview of new Rules for the Use of CCB

Standards (December 2013)

Gareth Wishart, CCBA

Changes to Rules for the Use of CCB Standards

• Climate section waiver and requirements for Recognized GHG programs

• Pipeline information• Cover page requirement• Project Implementation Report information• Gap validation• Comments received outside public comment period• Composition of audit team• CCB Label• Identify which Gold Level criteria are achieved

Transition to CCB Standards Third Edition

• Third Edition may be used immediately from 12th December 2013

• Shall be used after 1st July 2014

• Second Edition may be used for projects for which CCB Standards public comment period for validation is initiated on or before 30th June 2014

Lessons from an Indigenous REDD+ project:The Surui Forest Carbon Project

in the Brazilian Amazon.

Vasco M. van RoosmalenEquipe de Conservação da Amazônia - ECAM

Christian DanneckerDirector ForestrySouth Pole Group

Jeff Hayward Director, Climate Program

Rainforest Alliance

An Auditor Perspective

Questions and discussion

CCB Standards Third Edition and Rules are available for download at

www.climate-standards.org