The CORE framework demystifies best practices for supporting good carbon removal. From writing just and equitable policies, to funding intentionally-designed interventions, to buying better carbon credits, CORE’s got you covered.
How to integrate CORE practices
into your work
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Encourage scoping
Ensure that developers and programs have already invested in understanding the communities they will be collaborating with and serving. At this stage, you may wish to have EJ screening criteria to ensure projects that require active community engagement are matched to communities with the capacity to sustain that interest.
- Equity
- Justice
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Expect engagement
Set clearly documented expectations for stakeholder research and engagement prior and during project start. At this stage, you may wish to have templates for community benefits agreements and clear funding criteria based around engagement.
- Community Benefits Mechanisms
- Community Agency Mechanisms
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Set strong standards
When it comes to accounting for carbon that’s been removed, interventions should account for their full life cycles including construction and materials used. At this stage, purchasers should prioritize dynamic baseline models, clearly defined additional impacts, and broad system boundaries that include supply-chain impacts and land-use changes that paint more realistic pictures of an intervention’s net negativity.
- Independently Verified
- Full System Carbon Accounting
- Design for Additional Impact
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Enforce accountability
Carbon removal supporters should ensure responsibility is maintained beyond the immediate scope of the project. At this stage, this means requiring legally binding contracts for community agreements and durable systems for ensuring real impact of carbon removal.
- Full System Carbon Accounting
- Enforcement Mechanisms
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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