The heart of the document is #additionality: ensuring that a project's emission reductions would NOT have happened without it. Establishing that "baseline" (the without-project scenario) is a huge challenge, full of assumptions and with a high risk of overestimating benefits.
#GHG #ClimateFinance
Dobrovich, G., Orozalieva, A., Mamidanna, S., Saludas, M. & Maestripieri, L. 2026. Additionality and ex ante greenhouse gas project level accounting – Application of the Environmental eXternalities ACcounting Tool (EX-ACT). Rome, FAO. https://doi.org/10.4060/cd8389en
Did you know that measuring the real #climateimpact of an agricultural project is more complex than it seems? 🌱
The FAO has published a new guide doi.org/10.4060/cd83... on the concept of #additionality for its EX-ACT tool. A key document to prevent #greenwashing in climate finance. 🧵
#agroecology
Thanks to @rcka.co.uk for the Small Sites London map: smallsites.london. Citizens House, Sydenham designed by Archio and delivered by London CLT. Get involved: www.londonclt.org/get-involved/
#LondonHousing #SmallSites #AffordableHousing #CommunityLedHousing #Additionality
Not surprising, since all studies on the topic agree that without requiring additionality, other reporting requirements wouldn’t lead to emissions reductions.
Our new study models various requirements with and without #additionality.
watttime.org/news-and-ins...
front covver of report - making additionality count
🔍 Are DFIs disclosing additionality effectively?
ICYMI in April our analysis found major inconsistencies & gaps in how private sector investments made with public money are justified.
Read more 👇
www.publishwhatyoufund.org/download/mak...
#DevFin #Additionality #DFIs #ODA
Front cover of report, Making additionality count: Assessing disclosure in private sector instrument reporting
📢 New report: Are #DFIs disclosing #additionality effectively?
Our analysis finds major inconsistencies & gaps in how private sector investments made with public money are justified. Now is the time for clear, consistent reporting.
Read more 👇
www.publishwhatyoufund.org/download/mak...
#DevFin
Europe is still blocking the production of #hydrogen and thus the hydrogen economy by imposing unworkable demands on electrolysis installation
#additionality #delegatedacts
@teresaribera.ec.europa.eu
@ombudsman.europa.eu
Some perspective - a thread 🧵
Hopefully this could mean the end of the vacuous #delegatedacts 'rules' imposed on electrolysis - the result of cynical lobbying which has doubled the price of hydrogen
These 'rules' were not planned by the Commission and have been criticised by all member states and the IEA
#additionality #DA
Do Carbon Offsets Offset Carbon?
New study in AEJ finds:
More than half of approved CDM offsets were allocated to projects that would very likely have been built anyway
➡️Illustrates challenges with international trade in carbon (EU ETS major exception) #additionality
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
He lobbies for the same 'rules' that lobbyists want to apply in the EU; which basically double the price of hydrogen despite OECD grids guaranteed to be carbon-zero within 10yrs. They make no sense - never applied to battery imports, fracking, mining etc
#threepillars #additionality #delegatedacts
There are now three certification systems that have been approved; and really using a certification system should be valid for recieving the subsidies that the current delegated act rules are designed to safeguard
#additionality #delegatedacts
energynews.pro/en/germany-a...
As I show in great detail, these groups have gone to extraordinary lengths to sow confusion, water down effective policy and maintain the fossil energy gravy train which supports them
#antihydrogenlobbying #additionality #delegatedacts danielrwilliams.medium.com/policy-group...
The rules don't work, they present an unavoidable and unnecessary obstacle designed to maintain fossil energy interests
'Strict green hydrogen additionality rules could slice two thirds off the value of US subsidies': Plug Power
#additionality www.hydrogeninsight.com/policy/exclu...
The grid will be decarbonised within a decade (making the rules pointless), and then no other technology (EVs, or grid scale batteries) have ever been subject to these strict requirements
#delegatedacts #additionality
www.hydrogeninsight.com/policy/germa...
The #additionality principle is a fundamental concept in #renewable energy procurement & #carbon offset markets. It refers to the requirement that a renewable #energy project or carbon reduction initiative would not have occurred without the specific intervention or investment from an organization.
The potential implementation of marine CO2 removal (#mCDR) faces many challenges. #Additionality is perhaps the most important metric defining the success of a mCDR method as it describes its "net climatic benefit". We explain/discuss additionality in the mCDR context.
Just heard from a D3 portfolio founder:
"If not for @Third_Deriv, I would have quit this #climatetech #startup long ago."
#proudpapa #missionfulfillment #additionality
The unholy trinity of #leakage, #permanence and #additionality conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1755-... #iREDD #REDD #emissions #degradation #economics #forest #habitatloss #insurance #payment
Unholy trinity of #leakage, #permanence and #additionality conservationbytes.com/2012/03/13/unholy-trinit... #iREDD #REDD #carbontrading #carbon #climatechange #forests
Unholy trinity of #leakage, #permanence and #additionality conservationbytes.com/2012/03/13/unholy-trinit... #iREDD
Unholy trinity of #leakage, #permanence and #additionality conservationbytes.com/2012/03/13/unholy-trinit... #iREDD
