From risk to rigour: the changing face of rice methane
Here are some key takeaways
In No pain, no grain (2024), we highlighted the credibility challenges of rice methane projects, including one project rated D on our platform.
Our most recent ratings show improvement: CAR1513 (USA) achieved an ‘A’, while The Good Rice Alliance (India) received an ‘A.pre’ ex ante rating.
These projects benefit from updated methodologies, improved monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) approaches, and stronger additionality cases.
While these ratings suggest that higher-quality rice methane projects are possible, the extent to which this holds more broadly is still to be determined.
Contents
From ‘D’ to ‘A’: a shift in rice methane credibility
Two new case studies
Lessons for the market
Conclusion