Crediting Baselines

This technical note from the Partnership for Market Readiness (PMR) provides guidance on developing baselines for scaled-up crediting programs under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, focusing on quantifying greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions while maintaining environmental integrity.

• The report addresses the development of baselines for scaled-up crediting programs under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, which permits the creation of market mechanisms for the international transfer of mitigation outcomes, including those that credit aggregate outcomes across many sources.
• A crediting program's baseline should ideally represent the greenhouse gas emissions that would have occurred without the program, serving as a reference level to quantify GHG reductions over time, though the role of Nationally Determined Contributions in this process remains a question.
• The technical note identifies core principles likely to inform rules for new crediting mechanisms under the Paris Agreement, specifically highlighting the avoidance of double counting and environmental integrity.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2017). Crediting Baselines. https://www.sei.org/publications/crediting-baselines/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Crediting Baselines. 2017. https://www.sei.org/publications/crediting-baselines/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2017crediting, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Crediting Baselines}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2017}, month = nov, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/crediting-baselines/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }