Standard 3: Avoiding leakage – Current definition: The Project must not ca emissions to be shifted elsewhere, negating the offsets. For instance, heavy application of nitrogen fertilizer is one way to grow carbon under pasture. But it also releases an even more dangerous Greenhouse Gas Nitrous Oxide (N2O) which is 300 times more potent than CO2.
Questions arising from current definition of Avoiding Leakage
1. Is it possible to police this Standard without adding costs for auditing and without spying on landholders
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