Detailed expertise: our studies

The Foundation Development and Climate Alliance prepares and commissions studies to monitor and help shape the voluntary offset market, the development and climate policy framework, and trends in development and climate finance.

Among other things, the studies serve as a basis for establishing criteria to ensure high quality standards of climate protection projects in countries of the Global South, as well as for identifying new trends and innovative approaches to financing climate protection projects in the context of sustainable development.

If you have any questions about our studies, please feel free to contact our Research & Consulting team.

A guide to implementing the contribution claim model

Gap analysis on the environmental and social standards of certification programmes in the voluntary carbon market

Study „Sustainable development impacts of selected project types in the voluntary carbon market“, 2022

„Ensuring safeguards and assessing sustainable development impacts in the voluntary carbon market“ – An overview of approaches, 2022

ESMS Infosheet

Approved Standards and Processes by Development and Climate Alliance

Infosheets

Infosheet
“The Contribution Claim Model"

Potential questions
for the selection of
climate protection projects

Infosheet
“Corresponding Adjustment and Contribution Claim"

Infosheet
“Article 6 and the Voluntary Carbon Market"

Infosheet
“Private Climate Finance in the Global South"

Factsheets of the Carbon Credit Quality Initiative (CCQI)

Avoided Unplanned Deforestation

Avoided Planned Deforestation

Improved Forest Management

Commercial Afforestation

Wind Power (Onshore)

Solar Photovoltaic Power

Landfill gas utilization

Household Biodigesters

Establishment of Natural Forests

Efficient Cookstoves

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