Four pillars. One defensible credit score.
Every project on Terminal Carbon is evaluated against the same four-pillar framework — independent of registry, geography or vintage. Read each pillar to see how we score it and which standards we recognise.
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Additionality
Would the reductions have happened anyway? Financial, regulatory, barrier and common-practice tests.
Permanence
Buffer pools, reversal risk and durability tiers from short-term nature-based to geological storage.
Leakage
Activity-shifting and market leakage adjustments so net climate benefit reflects real impact.
MRV
Measurement, reporting and verification standards we recognise across major registries.
Plain-English answers
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