Inputs to the draft ART TREES 3.0 standard

This document includes all comments that Oeko-Institut provided to the Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART) in a public consultation on the draft Version 3.0 of its “The REDD+ Environmental Excellence Standard (TREES)”. The comments are based on a detailed evaluation of the standard, including a preliminary analysis using historical deforestation data from countries with tropical moist forest, which will be published in a separate report. We focus our analysis on activities to reduce deforestation and forest degradation, as this is the predominant activity in applications under ART TREES. Our comments evaluate the draft standard against several integrity benchmarks for carbon credit quality, including the Core Carbon Principles (CCPs) and the Assessment Framework of the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM), the Article 6.4 Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism (PACM), the Carbon Credit Quality Initiative (CCQI) and the Oxford Principles for Responsible Engagement with Article 6.