SCF and Options to Move from Programmatic to Sectoral Crediting: Methodological Note

2019

SCF and Options to Move from Programmatic to Sectoral Crediting: Methodological Note

Programmatic crediting still relies on bottom-up data aggregation from a large number of individual project activities joining a pre-defined crediting framework. In that context the SCF functions as a generalized PoA using more standardized rules. Such a programmatic SCF could potentially evolve into a “sectoral SCF”, based on a sectoral emissions reduction target and crediting only emission reductions achieved beyond that target.