Measuring, recording and verifying greenhouse gas emissions and mitigation
This methodology covers project activities replacing or modifying anaerobic animal manure management systems in livestock farms for methane recovery and destruction by flaring/combustion or use of the recovered methane as fuel for cooking stoves or the production of electricity. It also covers a centralized treatment plant for manure collected from several farms.
UNFCCC
2017
This methodology includes recovery and destruction of methane from manure and wastes from agriculture that would otherwise decay anaerobically emitting methane to the atmosphere. Methane emissions are prevented by installing methane recovery and combustion systems to an existing source of emissions or changing the management practice of organic waste to controlled anaerobic digestion with methane recovery and combustion systems.
UNFCCC
2012
This method allows producers of pasture-fed beef cattle across Australia to earn carbon credits by reducing methane and nitrous oxide emissions from their herds. Benefits associated with reducing these GHG emissions include higher productivity of digestion and improved animal health in beef cattle herds. Practices include increasing pasture quality, providing supplemental feed all year, and improving weaning percentage by culling unproductive cows.
Australia: Department of the Environment and Energy
2017
This methodology includes the capture and combustion of methane produced by the decomposition of manure from pigs in a biodigester. It provides incentives for piggery operators to use biodigesters instead of covered effluent lagoons. The benefit of collecting biogas is that it can be used to fuel boilers used to heat farrowing sheds as well as to generate renewable electricity that could be used on-site or sold back into the electricity grid.
Australia: Department of the Environment and Energy
2013
This methodology includes capture and combustion of methane biogas generated by dairy manure decomposition in effluent ponds. The methane contained in the biogas produced is burned to convert it to carbon dioxide and water. Recommended abatement activities include covering effluent ponds to prevent the release of methane and collecting the methane biogas and combusting the methane component.
Australia: Department of the Environment and Energy
2015
This Climate Action Reserve (CAR) protocol provides a methodology for accounting for emission reductions from biogas control projects that capture and destroy methane from manure management. It is applicable to a range of technologies such as:
Eligible projects must be located in Mexico.
Climate Action Reserve (CAR)
2016
Verified Carbon Standard approved methodology, developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), to guide estimates of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions and/or removals associated with the adoption of sustainable grassland management practices for grasslands in semi-arid regions and as a result, increasing soil organic carbon (SOC) content and reducing emissions of non-CO2 GHGs. Project activities include improving grazing animals pasture rotation, limiting the grazing of animals on degraded pastures, and restoration management of degraded lands.
Verified Carbon Standard
2014
Verified Carbon Standard approved methodology was developed by Soils for the Future to guide quantification of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions and removals from projects that introduce sustainable adjustment of the density of grazing animals and the frequency of prescribed fires into an uncultivated grassland landscape. The methodology demonstrates how to determine additional carbon offsets from soil sequestration and/or reduction in methane emissions from changing the frequency of fires, the density of grazing animals, and/or introducing new grassland species as forage for grazing animals or in order to restore degraded soils.
Verified Carbon Standard
2015
This methodology includes measures to avoid methane and nitrous oxide emissions from pre-harvest burning of sugarcane biomass that would have otherwise been burnt openly. Aerobic treatment of sugarcane biomass by mulching is introduced to project activities.
UNFCCC
2012
This methodology includes steps to avoid the emissions of methane from biomass or other organic matter that would have decayed anaerobically in a solid waste disposal site (SWDS), an animal waste management system (AWMS), or a wastewater treatment system (WWTS). In project activity, biological treatment of biomass or other organic matters is introduced through controlled anaerobic digestion in closed reactors with biogas recovery and combustion/flaring systems.
UNFCCC
2010