Select the SOCIALCARBON methodology for your project. In parallel prepare your SOCIALCARBON indicators.

The indicators are project specific and co-developers may choose between adapting existing indicators or creating new ones.

SOCIALCARBON indicators receive scores ranging from the worst scenario (level 1) to the ideal scenario (level 6). Such degrees indicate the levels of sustainability correlated to six aspects: social, human, financial, natural, biodiversity and carbon components.

Develop your project PDD and define a baseline for assessing the project’s contribution to sustainable development.

Collect data used to score the indicators through participative methods, like interviews, questionnaires or meetings with stakeholders. Then summarize the obtained information in a section of the PDD.

Prior to validation, our team will conduct a Project Design Review, assessing the projects likely compliance against the SOCIALCARBON Standard and selected methodology, and identifying risks to the projects that should be managed.

List your draft PDD on the registry and then choose a Validation / Verification Body (VVB) to validate the PDD.

Once the VVB has completed their validation, we will receive a validation report. Following our review, your project will be validated.

Develop a Monitoring Report for each monitoring period and submit it to independent verification, in order to verify the environmental outcomes and demonstrate the project’s contribution to sustainable development based on the indicators chosen.

Achieving sustainability is not a quick and easy task; rather, it is a long process of continual improvements.

After the first environmental credit sale, project proponents:

• Must demonstrate goals for improvement and provide evidence that they are being achieved.

• Will not be allowed to present a decrease in the same aspect for three consecutive monitoring periods.

After successful verification, you may issue Environmental Credits on our Registry. These can then be sold and retired.