Assessment Framework
We assess carbon-crediting programs and Categories of credits for adherence to the Core Carbon Principles Assessment Framework. Our Assessment Framework is the rulebook that defines what a high-integrity carbon credit looks like.
To ensure the voluntary carbon market accelerates a just transition to 1.5°C, the Assessment Framework sets out the detailed criteria we use to assess whether carbon-crediting programs and Categories of carbon credits meet the Core Carbon Principles (CCPs). It sets a robust, achievable threshold that aims to raise standards across the voluntary carbon market to a consistent level of quality.
The CCP label is designed to build trust in the voluntary carbon market and unlock investment by making it easy for buyers to recognise and put a price on a high-integrity carbon credit no matter which carbon crediting program issued it, what kind of credit it is, or where it is generated.
Core Carbon Principles Assessment Framework and Procedure
The Core Carbon Principles Assessment Framework and Procedure is published in the following parts:
How we apply the Assessment Framework
We are now conducting parallel assessments of carbon-crediting programs and Categories of carbon credits for adherence to the Core Carbon Principles Assessment Framework.
CCPs & Assessment Status
“Our Assessment Framework will ensure consistency and drive up ambition across the market, ensuring that credits help us deliver our global climate goals.”
Farrukh Khan
Member, Integrity Council’s Governing Board, and former senior member of the UN Secretary General’s Climate Team
“Our CCPs and assessment criteria set a global threshold for quality which aims to unlock finance at speed and scale for projects to reduce and remove billions of tonnes of emissions that would not otherwise be viable.”
Annette L. Nazareth
Chair, The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market
