Sectors & Sectoral Scopes
Projects can be developed across a range of sectors, from forest conservation to renewable energy, to mining, manufacturing and waste disposal. See the complete list of sectors below.
VCS Sectoral Scopes:
- Energy (renewable/non-renewable)
- Energy distribution
- Energy demand
- Manufacturing industries
- Chemical industry
- Construction
- Transport
- Mining/Mineral production
- Metal production
- Fugitive emissions - from fuels (solid, oil and gas)
- Fugitive emissions - from Industrial gases (halocarbons and sulphur hexafluoride)
- Solvents use
- Waste handling and disposal
- Agriculture Forestry and Other Land Use
- Livestock and manure management
Mapping VCS Scopes to ANSI Scopes
See the mapping of VCS scopes to ANSI scopes, or the sectoral scopes developed by the American National Standards Institute.
For more detailed information, validation/verification bodies should log on to the VVB portal.
Scaling-up from projects to sectors
Currently, most activities developed under VCS are individual projects that fall into one or more of the above sectoral scopes. But increasingly projects are seeking ways to group or scale-up individual activities to curb emissions on a larger scale with lower transaction costs.
Scaled-up approaches can be Grouped Projects, already included in VCS requirements. And they may soon include standardized approaches like performance benchmarks and the jurisdiction-wide crediting of avoided deforestation. Read more about VCS Program Development
