The CORE Framework guides carbon removal from conception to completion, whether you are scoping a facility, designing a program, or a land or ocean steward making a management plan.
How to integrate CORE practices
into your work
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Start with scoping
Identify your key stakeholders and the obstacles they face. Design engagement strategies to achieve equity, justice, inclusion, and transparency. At this stage you might develop a stakeholder map and engagement strategy.
- Knowledge Building and Management
- Community Agency Mechanisms
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Listen and engage
Explore stakeholder needs deeply and collaboratively. Invest in relationships and build opportunities for agency and tailoring to local needs. At this stage you might write community benefits plans and organize community representation.
- Knowledge Building and Management
- Community Benefits Mechanisms
- Community Agency Mechanisms
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Devise a plan
Design projects or programs in collaboration with stakeholders, using learnings from engagement and maintaining communication channels with community partners. At this stage you might sign community benefits agreements, and begin realizing co-benefits and workforce objectives.
- Dignified Workforce development
- Community Benefits Mechanisms
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Iteratively review and revise
As projects and programs proceed, outcomes should be communicated to representatives, partners, and stakeholders according to agreements and ability. These ensure that environmental, health, climate, and benefits-sharing goals are being met, and changes or issues are actively managed. At this stage, knowledge sharing and independent review should be fully operational and sufficient to ensure outcomes.
- Independently review
- Environmental Outcomes
- Human Health
- Full System Carbon Accounting
- Design for Additional Impact
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Ensure accountability
When an intervention concludes, all stewards and community members should have the knowledge, confidence, and mechanisms to ensure that environmental, health, climate, and benefits-sharing goals have been satisfactorily met. At this stage, enforcement mechanisms and monitoring strategies should be in place and actively addressing any concerns.
- Enforcement Mechanism
- Monitoring of Carbon Storage