Introduction
The CarbonNeutral Protocol Purpose Principles Structure Development of The CarbonNeutral Protocol Other standards About Climate Impact Partners Acknowledgements Legal Awards
Core Requirements
Step 1: Define Step 2: Measure Step 3: Target Step 4: Reduce Step 5: Communicate
Technical Specifications and Guidance
Step 1: Define
1.1 Required GHG Emissions Sources 1.2 Certification specific requirements 1.3 Corporate value chain (Scope 3) accounting and reporting 1.4 Product-type certifications 1.5 Treatment of assets rented or leased to customers of CarbonNeutral® entities
Step 2: Measure
2.1 GHG Emissions quantification requirements 2.2 GHG Emissions Assessments 2.3 Quality assurance and verification 2.4 Energy use (gas and electricity) 2.5 Aviation 2.6 Materials consumption and waste 2.7 How to report GHG emissions from carbon neutral services within a corporate GHG inventory 2.8 Using environmental product declarations (EPDs) for CarbonNeutral® products
Step 3: Target
3.1 Approved emission reduction strategies and/or targets 3.2 Target and Reduce Form 3.3 Setting internal reduction targets 3.4 Net zero targets 3.5 Climate (or carbon, or net) positive
Step 4: Reduce
4.1 Approved Environmental Instrument Standards 4.2 Recognised non-carbon accounting standards 4.3 Evaluating internal GHG reductions 4.4 Elaboration on additionality and baselines 4.5 The use of carbon credits generated by projects which avoid, reduce and remove GHGs 4.6 Insetting 4.7 Excluded emission reduction project types 4.8 Corresponding Adjustments (CAs)
Step 5: Communicate
5.1 Use of the CarbonNeutral Certification logo 5.2 Communicating CarbonNeutral certification 5.3 Communicating 100% Renewable Electricity 5.4 Recommended disclosures and communication
Glossary of Terms
Reference Material
Attestation forms Cross-compliance Tables
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The CarbonNeutral Protocol Index

3.1 Approved emission reduction strategies and/or targets

Purpose

This section specifies which internal abatement strategies and/or targets must be in place for entities with annual footprints over a certain size (as defined by the CarbonNeutral company certification)

In order to receive a CarbonNeutral® certification (including entity, product or activity certifications), clients with annual company footprints over 100,000 tCO2e must have set one of the approved emission reduction strategies and/or targets set out in Table 17. This applies even if the subject of the certification is less than 100,000 tCO2e.

From 2024 onwards, the threshold will reduce by 10,000 tCO2e each year to 10,000 tCO2e by 2032. This requirement is in place to ensure that organisations with increasingly smaller carbon footprints have put in place robust abatement strategies, to support credible climate-related claims.

These strategies and/or targets must be specified in the client’s CarbonNeutral® Certification Target and Reduce Form (see Technical Specification 3.2).

This Technical Specification is reviewed annually to ensure it reflects developments in best practice and the performance of internal abatement initiatives.

Table 17: Approved Emission Reduction Strategies and/or Targets


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