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Governance

Three bands, no self-certification

Authority in the programme is deliberately split. The programme writes standards and operates the registry; accredited third parties decide whether projects meet them; the public record checks both. No band can complete an issuance alone.

Band 1

MCC programme

Develops methodologies, registers projects, operates monitoring and the registry, manages the buffer pool. Cannot validate, verify or approve its own methodologies.

Band 2

Independent parties

Accredited VVBs under ISO 14065 validate projects and verify outcomes. Methodology approval, with peer review and public consultation, is reserved to the Methodology Review Committee (MCC-001 cll. 0013/0082); that body has not yet been constituted, so no methodology can presently be approved by anyone.

Band 3

Public record

PDDs, validation and verification reports and issuance records are public by default. Every serial is checkable at /verify without an account.

01 · Procedures

Methodology change control

Drafting under MCC-200, open stakeholder consultation at the notice period the instrument’s tier requires (90/60/30/14 days), independent peer review, versioned publication under a recorded hash.

Reversals and buffer release

Satellite/remote-sensing reversal monitoring is governed by MCC-BPM cll. 0100, 0111 and 0163. Confirmed reversals draw on the buffer pool; release requires justification by the Review Authority and approval by the Registry Oversight Authority — neither body is yet constituted.

Grievances and appeals

Project proponents, communities and third parties can raise grievances against any programme decision. An appeal today is registered and held open, not heard — none of the instruments’ named appeal forums currently has any appointee.

AI under human oversight

AI pre-screens design documents under MCC-850; satellite/remote-sensing reversal-anomaly monitoring is a separate function under MCC-BPM. AI never approves, validates or verifies — every issuance requires an accredited third-party opinion.

FPIC and benefit-sharing

Free, prior and informed consent, indigenous rights and equitable benefit-sharing are screened at validation under the ESS policy’s own eight safeguards principles.

Interest disclosure and recusal

Interest declarations, where filed, sit in the still-draft Register of Interests, not the public governance register; only one of the Board’s two members has ever filed one, and MCC-700 cl. 13.4’s own commencement date was never fixed.

02 · Public records
Control testsWhich of the programme’s controls have been shown to refuse what they guard — each tested by performing the forbidden action and rolling it back — and which have never been tested at all.Open →
Who can change whatThe amendment procedure for each tier of the corpus, from MCC-001 cll. 0079–0083, and whether the body each clause names exists to exercise it.Open →
Code registerEvery family, instrument and methodology code the programme has used, what it means in each source, and which of those sources are in force — including the codes that mean more than one thing.Open →
Readiness registerWhat must be true before the programme can be said to be in control of itself, in five layers ordered by dependency — with every open condition named, counted and attributed.Open →
Governance registerWho sits on each governance body, in which seat, since when and by which resolution — with interest disclosures (MCC-700 §4, §13, §14).Open →
Document hierarchy and precedence registerEvery instrument by tier, with its version, its owner, and the signed decision that adopted it — or the record that none exists.Open →
Decision bookEvery founder and board decision in order, each with its signature status stated plainly, including those that are not signed (MCC-700 §23.4).Open →
Public consultationsEvery rule change is published for comment for the notice period its tier requires; comments receive written responses and a closing protocol.Open →
Document registerAdopted standards, policies and decisions, published with version and SHA-256.Open →
Grievances & appealsHow to raise a grievance against a programme decision, and how appeals are heard.Open →