Verification and accreditation schemes for climate change activities: A review of requirements for verification of greenhouse gas reductions and accreditation of verifiers-implications for long-term carbon sequestration

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 183, Issue , 2009, Pages 281-291

  Roed Larsen, Trygve ^a   Flach, Todd ^a  

^a DNV GL   (Norway)

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EID: 84899847596     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GM000315     Document Type: Review

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