Forest Carbon Project Standard v2 - public comment summary and responses

AMERICAN CARBON REGISTRY SUMMARY ANDR ESPONSE TOP UBLIC COMMENTS The ACR Forest Carbon Project Standard v2.0 (FC PwSa)s open for public comment from February 19 through March 15, 2010. Comments were received ifrtroemen thparties: • California Forestry Association • Carbon Project Services LLC • CE2 Capital Partners • Climate, Community & Biodiversity Alliance • Environmental Capital LLC • Environmental Synergy Inc. • Equator LLC • Finite Carbon LLC • Forest Carbon Offsets LLC • Rainforest Alliance SmartWood Program • Sun One Solutions • Tatanka Resources LLC • TerraCarbon LLC The comments are provided anonymously below, gro ubpye dtopical area, along with ACR’s response to each comment. For all new standards and methodologies, ACR coordeisn aat sequential process of public consultation and scientific peer review. Many of the public comnmts ebelow were incorporated to improve FtChPeS v2.0 prior to scientific peer review. Additional changesr ew made as a result of peer review. The final FCPS v2.0, published in June 2010, thus reflects publinc tsc oamnmd escientific peer review comments. Peer review comments and ACR’s responses to those sauremmarized separately. A. Definitions and Process ....................................................................................................................... 2 B. Additionality................................................................................................................. ...