AMS-III.R — Methane recovery from livestock and manure management at households and small farms

What CarbonMeld reads

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  Grid emission factor: the methodology sets rules for it in some cases (AMS-III.R v05.0 project emissions para 16, p. 8). CarbonMeld reads it in the project's documents. CM-F-AMS-III-R-GRID-EF

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  Fraction of non-renewable biomass (fNRB): the methodology sets rules for it in some cases (AMS-III.R v05.0 applicability, p. 3). CarbonMeld reads it in the project's documents. The fNRB enters only through a combined AMS-I.E part. Where the documents apply AMS-I.E with this methodology, CarbonMeld's fNRB rules apply to that part. CM-F-AMS-III-R-FNRB

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• A confirmed investment analysis A-INVEST

  The documents show a project-level additionality test, the validation confirmed it, and it is an investment analysis (a numeric test of the project's finances with and without carbon revenue).

• No usage monitoring (cookstoves, biogas, water treatment) Q-NO-USAGE-MONITORING

  Cookstoves, biogas and water treatment: the monitoring or verification reports that CarbonMeld read give no usage rate. For biogas and water treatment, the rule applies where the methodology asks for a usage survey or an operation survey. Where CarbonMeld read no monitoring or verification report, the rule does not apply. A usage check by the verifier counts as usage monitoring. Operation logs and the share of units still in operation count too. CarbonMeld applies this rule only where a check of the documents has confirmed its condition; without that check, the rule takes no points.

Deductions that can apply

• A methane activity the law requires A-LEGAL

  The rule applies to projects that capture or avoid methane. These are landfill gas, manure, wastewater, composting and coal-mine methane. They also include orphan wells, oil and gas leaks, rice, enteric methane and household biogas. The documents state that the law requires the activity. Or the documents state that a law requires the capture of the gas. An activity that the law already requires is not additional. If the documents show that the baseline already deducts the amount that the law requires, CarbonMeld takes no point.

Set by the methodology or the programme, not assessed by our current method

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  Leakage: the methodology sets rules for it in some cases (AMS-III.R v05.0 section 5.4 Leakage, p. 8). Our current method does not assess it. CM-F-AMS-III-R-LEAKAGE

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  Tracking of the end use: the methodology sets rules for it (AMS-III.R v05.0 monitoring para 21, p. 9). Our current method does not assess it. CM-F-AMS-III-R-END-USE-TRACKING

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  Social safeguards and consent of communities (FPIC): any such rules come from the programme, not the methodology. Our current method does not assess it. CM-F-AMS-III-R-SAFEGUARDS-FPIC

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