Survival-adjusted carbon stock of living trees (tonnes CO2e, unit TONNE)
Provisional. The item may be used under NCGS pending full approval.
Definition
The carbon stock in the above-ground biomass of the living tree individuals at a site at T3 or later, from each tree’s measured stem diameter through the allometric equation NCGS-M005 states, converted to CO2 equivalent; survival-adjusted because only trees observed alive count. An impact of persistence, never of planting; provisional until the carbon module’s design sections exist.
purpose
To say what a carbon claim under the standard would need (a stem diameter on a living tree at T3 or later under a design with a crediting period) and to refuse it until then.
rationale
KIA-Adapt’s PDD (A3) computed carbon under AR-AMS0007 from stem diameter; the standard captures the diameter, defines the indicator and holds it provisional so that no 2026 report can carry a carbon figure (ADR-0012, ADR-0016).
Classification
- Result level: Impact
- Outcome domains: Climate mitigation
- Unit of observation: Tree individual
- Activity types: Monitoring visit
- Earliest horizon: T3 one year
- Approval status: Provisional
- Unit of measure:
TONNE
Collections
- Carbon module: Optional and provisional: the survival-adjusted carbon stock under NCGS-M005, applicable only once a design carries the crediting-period and eligible-land sections a carbon module would add (ADR-0016). No 2026 claim.
Methodologies that serve it
Where it can be claimed, by stratum and horizon: the claims table.