Material Changes to Previously-Assessed Programmes (submitted by September 2023)
Four programmes submitted procedural updates for TAB's assessment in August and September 2023.
Additionally, in September 2023 one programme submitted updated information relevant for the assessment of its re-application:
TAB Recommendations
TAB submitted its report to Council in January 2024. After consideration, Council accepted TAB's recommendations and approved the associated updates to the ICAO document "CORSIA Eligible Emissions Units." TAB recommendations in the TAB Report (January 2024) are available below.
Clarification of TAB's criteria interpretation
The document "Clarification of TAB's criteria interpretation contained in TAB Reports" consolidates TAB’s further interpretations of the CORSIA Emissions Units Eligibility Criteria and associated Guidelines for Criteria Interpretation, including specific approaches taken to apply criteria and guidelines during the TAB’s assessments, which form the basis of TAB’s recommendations to the ICAO Council on eligible emissions units. The latest version of this document is available here.
2023 Programme Applications and Material Changes to Previously-Assessed Programmes
From 24 February to 31 March 2023, ICAO invited emissions unit programmes to apply for assessment by the Technical Advisory Body (TAB) against the CORSIA Emissions Unit Criteria (EUC) to supply CORSIA Eligible Emissions Units for the 2024 – 2026 compliance period (first phase).
ICAO received eleven responses to the call for applications. The responses provided - except for the information labeled as business confidential - are included below:
1. Biocarbon Fund Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes
2. Biocarbon Registry
3. Carbonpath
4. Cercarbono
5. Forest Carbon Partnership Facility
6. International Carbon Registry
7. J-Credit
8. KCCI Carbon Standard
9. Premium Thailand Voluntary Emission Reduction Program
10. Riverse
11. SOCIALCARBON
In addition to the applications above, ICAO received three material updates to previously-assessed programmes for TAB's assessment by April 2023.
1. Biocarbon Fund Initiative for Sustainble Forest Landscapes
2. Global Carbon Council
3. SOCIALCARBON
TAB Recommendations
TAB submitted its report to Council in November 2023. After consideration, Council accepted TAB's recommendations and approved the associated ICAO document "CORSIA Eligible Emissions Units." TAB recommendations in the TAB Report (September 2023) are available below.
Registry Attestations
Signed Emissions Unit Programme Registry Attestation from programme newly approved by Council in November 2023 is available below:
1. SOCIALCARBON
Public Comments
From 4 May to 3 June 2023 2023, ICAO invited the public to submit comments on responses to the call for 2023 applications and matrial updates, regarding their alignment with the EUC.
Public comments received during that period, including commenter names and organizations, are published following the decision by the Council in respect of TAB's eligibility recommendations for this cycle.
ICAO reserves its rights to exclude from publication any submissions that are inconsistent with the guidelines, or which contain information that can be perceived as offensive, defamatory, and/or third-party advertising. ICAO will not consider any submission from the public that requests confidential treatment of all, or a substantial part, of the submission. All comments reflect the views and opinions of the writer and does not in any mean reflect TAB or ICAO views. All comments are published as received.
ICAO received public comments from 2 organizations, which are available in a consolidated form here.
Material Change Form
Programmes which are approved to supply CORSIA Eligible Emissions Units are encouraged to use the Material Change Form to inform TAB of any material changes, the procedures for which are described in Section 8 of the TAB Procedures.
Market Monitoring Form
The public is invited to submit comments pertaining to observations of any potential deviation from the Emissions Units Criteria (EUC), CORSIA Eligible Emissions Unit Programme's Scope of Eligibility (as specified in the ICAO document "CORSIA Eligible Emissions Units"), and/or Terms of Eligibility on an on-going basis using this Market monitoring form.
Previous TAB Assessments
TAB completed assessments in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. Detailed information about those assessments can be accessed below:
2019 TAB Assessment
2020 TAB Assessment
2021 TAB Assessment
2022 TAB Assessment
Technical Advisory Body (TAB)
TAB Terms of ReferenceTAB Procedures
List of TAB Members
TAB 2023 Work Programme
