Carbon Market Watch welcomes the opportunity to respond to the Article 6.4 Supervisory Body’s call for inputs on removal activities and on broader methodological rules, such as additionality and baseline setting. Numerous changes are particularly needed in the Supervisory Body’s draft recommendations regarding removal activities, including with regard to the need for long-term monitoring, a science-based process to determine reversal risk, clarifications on how reversals are remediated, and strengthened safeguards to uphold the rights of indigenous peoples.
Carbon Market Watch recommendations to the Article 6.4 Supervisory Body: sustainable development tool
The Article 6.4 Supervisory Body aims to adopt the sustainable development (SD) tool at its next meeting in September/October. This tool is the main instrument