“Core Benefits” Standards and the impact of Natural Climate Solutions (NCS) on sustainable development

This is the fourth associated technical paper for the report “Nature-based Solutions in strategies for Net Zero, Nature Positive and addressing Inequality.”

Its objective is to position the benefits from NCS activities (including climate mitigation) as “core” to the value of NCS, indicate the role of carbon crediting standards in verifying core benefits, present a preliminary checklist for use alongside existing due diligence and assurance mechanisms and share reference material in the form of high-level factsheets on key standards.