Clarification on application of Requirement and guidelines for Usage Rate Assessment

06.07.2020 Rule Clarifications

RELATED DOCUMENTS

Document name	Version	Released date
Cookstove Usage Rate Guidelines	2.0	27.10.2020
Reduced emissions from cooking and heating – Technologies and Practices to Displace Decentralized Thermal Energy Consumption (TPDDTEC)	4.0	7.10.2021
Methodology to Estimate and Verify ADALYs from Cleaner Household Air	1.0	17.01.2017
Gold Standard Quantification of climate related emission reductions of Black Carbon and Co-emitted Species due to the replacement of less efficient cookstoves with improved efficiency cookstoves	1.1	25.08.2017

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Transition requirements applicability

This rule clarification provides further guidance on specific project situations that were not clearly covered by version 2.0 of the Transition Requirements for projects transitioning from previous versions of the Gold Standard to the Gold Standard for the Global Goals.

Public disclosure requirements for Project documentation

This rule clarification provides further guidance on specific project information and documents that need to be made publicly and transparently available for each certification stage. It also prescribes the approach for treating confidential information in project documents required to be made public.

Eligibility of GSVERs under the CORSIA regime

This rule clarification outlines a provision to demonstrate compliance with CORISA Emissions Unit Eligibility Criteria (EUC) for projects applying methodology or methodological standards that allows exemptions for situations where legally binding mandates are systematically not enforced and non-compliance is widespread in a country.

Water Boiling Test (WBT) for Efficiency determination

The Water Boiling Test is used to calculate the thermal efficiency of cookstoves. It consists of three phases that immediately follow each other. This rule clarification outlines which phases can be used for calculating high-power thermal efficiency.