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How Additionality Is Actually Tested: Barriers, Investment Analysis and Common Practice

Additionality sounds abstract until you read the tests: barrier analysis, investment analysis, common practice. Here's how verifiers run them — and where they bend.

Priya Raman · September 26, 2026

Blue Carbon10 min read

Setting a Baseline: The Number Every Kelp Carbon Project Starts From

A carbon credit is only real if the baseline against which it's measured is honest. How baselines are set for kelp and blue carbon projects — and why they decide integrity.

Priya Raman · September 26, 2026

Blue Carbon9 min read

Additionality in Carbon Credits: Would It Have Happened Anyway?

Additionality is the make-or-break test of every carbon credit: did the credit cause the climate benefit? How the counterfactual is tested — and faked.

Priya Raman · September 25, 2026

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