Endorsed Organisations

The following organisations have successfully passed a third party audit agains the ICROA Carbon Crediting Endorsement Programme criteria and may use the ICROA Endorsed Label.

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ENDORSED UN AND GOVERNMENT STANDARDS

UNFCCC: Limited to CERs issued under the CDM, and until further clarity is available on the transition to the new mechanism in development under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement

ENDORSED INDEPENDENT STANDARDS*

CONDITIONALLY** ENDORSED INDEPENDENT STANDARDS

*Assessed by ICROA on the basis of the Review Criteria. Both Endorsed Standards and Conditionally Endorsed Standards are required to proactively inform ICROA of any updates or changes on an annual basis before Q3 of each year, along with the supporting documentation for an official technical review. Failure to do so may result in exclusion from the Code. For more information, please contact the ICROA Secretariat.

​**Conditional Endorsement is attributed, for a limited period, to crediting programmes that meet ICROA criteria for Endorsement but have not yet achieved the volume threshold criteria for the number of registered projects (10) and issued credits (100,000). ICROA Approved organisations may use carbon credits from conditionally Endorsed crediting programmes and will be Code compliant. For more details, please contact the ICROA Secretariat.

***CSI has more than one registry; the only one to receive ICROA’s Conditional Endorsement is CSI’s Global C-Sink Registry: https://global-c-registry.org/ — no other CSI registry is ICROA Endorsed

Approved Emissions Factors:

  • New Zealand: Ministry for the Environment – National Emissions Factors
  • Australia: Department of the Environment and Energy – National Greenhouse Accounts Factors
  • Germany: BMU (Federal Ministry for the Environment)
  • Netherlands: Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment – National Emission Factors
  • UK: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) – Current GHG conversion factors
  • Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): Emission Factors Database

ICROA Carbon Crediting Endorsement

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