The Standards of our Projects
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 voluntary market standard where all stakeholders for offset creation, including the offset Certifiers, are audited against engineering standards. By using the DEV Carbon Standard to increase the transparency of the system, trust in voluntary offset markets can be rebuilt.
“These are the foundations for obtaining a transparent, unquestionable offset/Carbon Credit
of real value for all parties anywhere in the world.”
The Stakeholders
“In this type of project, it is essential to be very clear about
who the key actors are and what role each one plays,
in order to achieve business with high levels of return on investment.”
