Decentralized Environmental Verification (DEV) is a new environmental transparency model designed to provide accountability to sustainability projects and sustainability-related markets. DEV is based on Systems Engineering principles, Open Data principles, Ethical Al principles, and Human Rights and Biocultural perspectives.
The DEV standards have two levels of detail: standards and protocols, all of which are open to the public. Sustainability Certifiers licensed to operate under the different DEV standards can then proceed to create their own guides to comply with the protocols: these guides become then the third level of detail, and certifiers can decide which guides are public and which are internal.
Furthermore, auditors licensed under any DEV standard can develop their own technical handbooks and technical notes to fullfil the guidelines presented in the certifiers’ guides. That becomes the fourh level of detail. The auditors can choose whether to publish or keep those technical handbooks and notes internal.
ABOUT THE DEV CARBON STANDARD
Decentralized Environmental Verification (DEV) is a new environmental transparency model designed to provide accountability to sustainability projects and sustainability-related markets.
The DEV Carbon Standard is the world’s first open data standard for carbon offset certification. It ensures the highest level of transparency by using Systems Engineering standards for the validation, verification, and certification of all the key actors for the offset creation.
The DEV Carbon Standard makes it possible for any person with internet access to directly verify the Key Performance Indicators (KPI), the support data and the data sources behind the carbon offsets. It provides the framework for a truly decentralized verification of carbon solutions, whilst ensuring that the data being showcased is relevant, accurate, and reliable.
The DEV Carbon Standard is the first carbon standard where all carbon solutions are audited against strict engineering and data science standards. By using the DEV Carbon Standard to increase the transparency of the data systems, trust in carbon markets can be rebuilt.
The DEV Carbon Standard promotes the ethical use of emerging technologies for the modelling, monitoring, auditing, and continual evaluation of carbon solutions.
For instance, this standard is the first to adopt UNESCO’s recommendations on Artificial Intelligence Ethics. Also, this standard takes into account perspectives that strengthen carbon solutions at the local level, such as the «Bicultural Approach» (first proposed by NaturaTech LAC), the notion of Climate Justice, and best practices to build fair and balanced partnerships with indigenous communities (including the integration of their ancestral and traditional knowledge into nature-based solutions, instead of imposing models that disrupt their traditions).
THE DEV CARBON STANDARD 