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Transparent Reporting and Certification for CDR

Transparent Reporting and Certification for CDR, or TRACEcdr, is an interactive tool to improve transparency in the carbon dioxide removal (CDR) industry. TRACEcdr provides information on monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) protocols – these are needed to give quality assurance to the industry and prove that a project has followed the requirements of the relevant CDR standard. TRACEcdr links MRV protocols to carbon credits that have been issued (where data is available) and provides analysis on the carbon accounting methodologies that underpin the protocols. The tool was developed by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE and is powered by AlliedOffsets.
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TRACEcdr Tool, redesigned!

The redesign of TRACEcdr allows the user to explore the data differently from the first version of the tool.

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Network visualiser
CDR methods are categorised in three ways. First, MRV protocols are clustered according to their CDR removal process  (based on classifications from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC]). Second, users can click into a cluster to view the CDR methods that have associated MRV protocols. Third, users can view the names of the different standard development organisations that have developed MRV protocols within this CDR method type.  At all levels of detail, the CDR methods are scaled according to total credit issuance (from information supplied by AlliedOffsets). The larger the node, the bigger the credit issuance associated with that protocol. Project numbers and credit issuance are updated weekly.
The right-hand panel offers numerous filtering tools: users can search for and filter between the IPCC CDR classification, CDR method, specific standard development organisations and MRV protocols. Additional filtering functions are available at the bottom of this panel, including new data on whether protocols have attributional or consequential lifecycle assessment characteristics, their jurisdictional scope, use in voluntary or compliance carbon markets and whether they explicitly consider permanence, additionality, baseline setting, and leakage.
Customising your view is possible using the legend on the left-hand panel. MRV protocols with triangles rather than circles do not have any issuance data that AlliedOffsets can access; or they have no issuance at present. Users can adjust graph settings to organise the data by project count or credit issuance or use a logarithmic scale.
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Summary statistics
This tab allows users to quickly see a breakdown of the key characteristics of the dataset. Pie charts display summaries of the key filters from the network visualiser tab, while the bar chart shows the total MRV protocol creation.
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Protocol explorer
This tab allows users to interact with the data in a tabular format and export the data in various formats.