Title page
Contents
1.0. Introduction 6
2.0. Terms and definitions 7
3.0. Baseline scenario 9
3.1. Baseline condition 9
4.0. Project scenario 9
4.1. Project conditions 9
4.2. Eligible project activities and equipment 9
5.0. Additionality 11
5.1. Legal additionality 11
5.2. Provincial or federal pricing mechanisms for GHG emissions 11
6.0. General requirements 11
6.1. Project start date 11
6.2. Project location and geographic boundaries 11
6.3. Environmental and social safeguards 12
7.0. Project GHG boundary 12
8.0. Quantification methodology 17
8.1. Baseline scenario GHG emissions 17
8.2. Project scenario GHG emissions 20
8.3. GHG emission reductions 25
9.0. Measurement and data 26
9.1. Measuring devices 26
9.1.1. Flow meters 26
9.1.2. Temperature and pressure gauges 26
9.1.3. Methane analyzers 26
9.1.4. Arrangement of measuring devices 26
9.2. Measurement frequency 27
9.3. Quality assurance and quality control 29
9.4. Missing data 29
9.5. Operational status of eligible destruction devices 30
10.0. Records 31
11.0. Reporting requirements 33
Schedule A. Reference condition values 34
Table 1. Eligible destruction devices 10
Table 2. Details on baseline and project scenario SSRs 14
Table 3. Default CH4 destruction efficiencies by eligible destruction device (DECH4) 24
Table 4. Measurement frequency for measured parameters for a landfill CH4 recovery and destruction project 27
Table 5. Missing data substitution methods 30
Figure 1. Illustration of the project GHG boundary 13