Registries-Standards

A registry is the ledger. A standard is the rulebook. For carbon dioxide removal (CDR), they are what turns “we removed a tonne of CO₂” into a serialized credit that someone can buy, count, and retire. A standard defines what counts as removal and how it must be measured. A methodology applies those rules to one specific process. Independent auditors check the project against the rules, and the registry issues the unit and tracks who owns it. When a buyer asks whether a credit is trustworthy, they are really asking whether each of these layers did its job. When a lender asks whether a project is bankable, much of the answer depends on whether a recognized standard has a methodology that fits the project’s process. ...