4.GCC环境与社会保障标准Environment-and-Social-Safeguards-Standard-v2

Environment and Social Safeguards Standard V2.0 - 2020 Global Carbon Council Environment and Social Safeguards Standard 3 of 33 Global Carbon Council Environment and Social Safeguards Standard 4 of 33 Contents 1. INTRODUCTION 6 2. INTEGRATING ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIAL SAFEGUARDS INTO GCC PROJECT DEVELOPMENT 7 3. DESIGN OF ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIAL SAFEGUARDS AND RISK MITIGATION ACTION PLANS 8 4. IMPLEMENTING RISK MITIGATION ACTION PLANS AND MONITORING PERFORMANCE 10 5. THIRD-PARTY VERIFICATION OF ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIAL SAFEGUARDS AND MITIGATION ACTIONS 11 Global Carbon Council Environment and Social Safeguards Standard 5 of 33 ACRONYMS CDM Clean Development mechanism CO2 Carbon di Oxide E+ Environmental No-net-harm Label GCC Global Carbon Council GHG Green House Gases GORD Gulf Organisation for Research and Development MENA Middle East and North Africa PMR Project Monitoring Report PSF Project Submission Form S+ Social No-net-harm Label SDGs Sustainable Development Goals Global Carbon Council Environment and Social Safeguards Standard 6 of 33 1. Introduction 1. The Global Carbon Council (GCC) Program is the Middle East (b) To conduct Do-No-Harm Risk Assessments to identify impacts categorized as Harmful; (c) To develop action plans to contain, reduce or eliminate impacts identified as Harmful; (d) To provide a framework for monitoring the implementation of action plans and achievement of action-plan targets; and (e) To facilitate verification by GCC Verifiers, which aims to certify that GCC Project Activities do not cause any net harm to the environment or to the society. 11. This standard provides requirements that establish safeguards to avoid negative environmental and social impacts as described below: (a) Project Owners shall complete the PSF, describing how they plan to mitigate any negative environmental and social impacts anticipated to result from their Project Activity, so that the Project Activity does not cause any net harm. The PSF must be submitted to the GCC Program together with the request for registration, following third-party Project Verification by an approved GCC Verifier; (b) Project Owners shall, when completing Project Monitoring Reports, describe how the plan to mitigate negative environmental and social impacts, as described in the 3 While using any GCC document, the terms/definitions/acronyms and the names of the regulatory documents referred have their first letter in capitals (e.g., Project Standard). Global Carbon Council Environment and Social Safeguards Standard 8 of 33 registered PSF, has been implemented and how the monitoring of the Project Activity has been conducted, to demonstrate that the Project Activity does not cause any net harm to the environment or society. The Project Monitoring Report (PMR) shall be submitted to the GCC Program along with a request for issuance, after third-party Emission Reduction Verification by an approved GCC Verifier; and (c) The GCC Verifier shall provide a Verification and a Certification Report and shall determine whether the Project Activity has not caused any net harm to the environment or society and, hence, is eligible to receive S+ and E+ certifications. 3. Design of Environment and Social Safeguards and Risk Mitigation Action Plans 12. The Project Owner, prior to Project Verification, shall complete section E of the PSF to describe how anticipated environmental and social impacts due to the Project Activity are planned to be mitigated so that they do not cause any net harm: (a) The environmental impacts that may be caused by constructing and operating the Project Activity shall be described in section E of the PSF, as per Table 1(a) and Table 3 of this document; and (b) The social impacts that may be caused by constructing and operating the Project Activity shall be described in section E of the PSF, as per Table 1(b) and Table 3 of this document. 13. The Project Owner shall conduct a Net-harm Assessment and complete the PSF as stipulated in the following eight-step procedure: (a) Step 1: Identify4 environmental and social impact that may result from constructing and operating the Project Activity. (b) Step 2: Identify all the anticipated impacts on: (i) The environment: Describe anticipated environmental impacts, both positive and negative, from all sources (stationary and mobile) that may result from the Project Activity, within and outside the project boundary, over which the Project Owner(s) has control, and beyond what would reasonably be expected to occur in the absence of the Project Activity; and (ii) Society: Describe anticipated social impacts, both positive and negative, on stakeholders that may result from constructing and operating the Project Activity. (c) Step 3: Describe the applicable national legal/regulatory requirements/limits related to the environmental and social impacts identified. 4 Project Owner may refer to IFC resources on identification of environmental and social impacts : https://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/topics_ext_content/ifc_external_corporate_site/sustainability-at- ifc/policies-standards/ehs-guidelines/ehsguidelines Global Carbon Council Environment and Social Safeguards Standard 9 of 33 (d) Step 4: Conduct a thorough Do-No-Harm Risk Assessment to determine the severity of identified impacts and classify them into the following three categories: (i) Not Applicable: If no impacts have been identified in Step 2 above, then the Project Activity will not cause any harm and the severity of impacts shall be indicated as Not Applicable. No actions are required to mitigate or eliminate impacts. (ii) Harmless: If impacts exist but the Project Activity complies with the applicable national legal/regulatory requirements, or is within legal limits, then the severity of impacts shall be indicated as Harmless. No actions are required to mitigate or eliminate these impacts. (iii) Harmful: If impacts exist and the Project Activity does not comply with the applicable national legal/regulatory requirements, or exceeds legal limits, then the severity of impacts is likely to cause harm (is unsafe) and shall be indicated as Harmful (actions are required). (e) Step 5: Develop concrete Risk Mitigation Action Plans to contain, reduce or eliminate the risk of each impact identified as Harmful. The action plan(s) shall include: (i) Operational controls and best practices, focusing on how to implement and operate the Project Activity, that will be adopted to reduce the risk of identified impacts, at least to a level that is in compliance with applicable legal requirements; and/or (ii) A Program of Risk Management Actions (refer to Table 3), focusing on additional actions (e.g., installation of pollution-control equipment or construction of crèche for workers) that shall be implemented to contain, reduce or eliminate the risk of Harmful impacts. (f) Step 6: Describe the monitoring approach and identify the parameters to be monitored for each impact that has been identified as Harmful and described in the PSF and when reporting on monitoring using the template provided in Table 3. (g) Step 7: Conduct a thorough Do-No-Harm Residual Risk Assessment to re- evaluate identified risks and determine whether the Risk Management Action Plan referred to in step 5 is likely to eliminate or reduce the anticipated Harmful impacts to the Harmless level. If so, the Project Owner(s) may indicate the impacts as Harmless and the action-plan targets can be considered accomplished. (h) Step 8: The severity of residual environmental and social impacts after mitigation or management as per the outcome of step 7 shall be rated by the Project Owner. Scoring shall be conducted as follows: (i) For each impact, the Project Owner shall assess whether the Project Activity is or is not likely to cause harm to the environment or society. If the conclusion is that the Project Activity: a. is not likely to cause any harm, mark the score as +1; or Global Carbon Council Environment and Social Safeguards Standard 10 of 33 b. is likely to cause harm, mark the score as -1 (ii) Calculate a Net Score, which is obtained by summing all of the scores (from step 8 (i), above) for individual impacts (harmful or harmless) in each row and the last column of Table 1(a, b). (iii) If the Net Score is: a. zero or greater, the overall anticipated impact is considered negligible and the Project Activity is likely to cause no net harm; or b. less than zero, the Project Activity is likely to cause net harm. (i) Once the Project Owner(s) confirms that their Project Activity is not likely to cause any net harm to the environment or society and the Net-harm Assessment in the PSF is complete, the PSF can be submitted to a GCC Verifier for Project Verification as per the Program Process. 4. Implementing Risk Mitigation Action Plans and Monitoring Performance 14. Project Owners shall ensure that their Project Activity does not cause any net harm to the environment or society and shall fulfil the environment and social safeguards defined for their Project Activity by: (a) Implementing the Risk Mitigation Action Plans defined in the registered PSF; and, (b) Measuring, monitoring, evaluating and reporting on the results of implementing said Risk Mitigation Action Plans. 15. For each monitoring period and prior to commencing Emission Reduction Verifications, Project Owners shall complete a PMR describing how the environment and social safeguards referred to in paragraph 14 and defined in the registered PSF have been implemented, and how the monitoring of the Project Activity has been conducted, to demonstrate that the Project Activity does not cause any net harm to the environment or society. 16. Project Owners shall conduct Net-harm Assessments and complete PMRs, following the similar process as described in paragraph 13, confirming that their Project Activity has not caused any net harm to the environment or society. PMRs shall describe the actions taken to mitigate the risk of: (a) Environmental impacts, as per Table 2(a) and Table 3; and (b) Social impacts, as per Table 2(b) and Table 3. 17. Once the Project Owner(s) confirms that their Project Activity has not caused any net harm to the environment or society and that the Net-harm Assessment described in the PMR is complete, the PMR can be submitted to a GCC Verifier for Emission Reduction Verification as per the Program Process. Global Carbon Council Environment and Social Safeguards Standard 11 of 33 5. Third-party Verification of Environment and Social Safeguards and Mitigation Actions 18. During Project Verification, the approved GCC Verifier shall also verify the identified environmental and social risks and the Risk Mitigation Action Plans included in the PSF. 19. The GCC Verifier shall provide a GCC Project Verification Report certifying that the Project Activity is not likely to cause any net harm to the environment or society and, hence, is eligible to achieve additional S+ and E+ certifications. In performing the Project Verification, the GCC Verifier shall: (a) Conduct an assessment of the environment and social safeguards defined by the Project Owner(s) for their Project Activity and confirm that all plausible risks of impacts resulting from the Project Activity have been identified in the PSF, including: (i) Environmental impacts, both positive and negative, from all sources (stationary and mobile) that may result from the Project Activity, within and outside the project boundary, over which the Project Owner(s) has control, and beyond what would reasonably be expected to occur in the absence of the Project Activity; and (ii) Impacts to society and stakeholders, both positive and negative, which may result from constructing and operating the Project Activity; (b) Describe how the GCC Verifier has assessed that the Project Activity has adopted Risk Mitigation Action Plans to mitigate the risks of negative environmental and social impacts to levels that are unlikely to cause any harm, and has committed to implementing those plans in the PSF; and (c) Include reporting as per Table 1 (a, b) in the Project Verification Report. 20. During Emission Reduction Verification for any given monitoring period, the approved GCC Verifier shall also verify the implementation of all Risk Mitigation Action Plans committed to in the PSF for the Project Activity and evaluate the performance of all actions and achievement of all targets defined in those plans and reported in the PMR as per Table 2 (a, b). 21. The GCC Emission Reduction Verifier shall provide a GCC Emission Reduction Verification Report for the chosen monitoring period, certifying the Project Activity has not caused any net harm to the environment or society and, hence, is eligible to receive the S+ and E+ certifications. In doing this, the GCC Verifier shall: (a) Conduct an assessment and confirm that the Project Activity has been implemented as described in the registered PSF; (b) Confirm that the PMR, for the monitoring period being verified, sufficiently describes how the Environment and Social Safeguards, as described in the registered PSF, have been implemented, measured, monitored and reported; Global Carbon Council Environment and Social Safeguards Standard 12 of 33 (c) Describe how the GCC Verifier has assessed that the Project Activity has achieved the targets identified in the Risk Mitigation Action Plan(s) to manage risks to levels that do not cause any net harm to the environment or society, as defined in the PSF and documented in the PMR; and (d) Include reporting as per Table 2 (a, b) in the Emission Reduction Verification Report. Global Carbon Council Environment and Social Safeguards Standard 13 of 33 Table 1(a): Matrix for Identifying Environmental Impacts, Establishing Safeguards and Performing Do-No-Harm Risk Assessments in the PSF and GCC Verifier’s conclusion 5 sourced from the CDM SD Tool and the sample reports are available ( https://www4.unfccc.int/sites/sdcmicrosite/Pages/SD-Reports.aspx ) Impact of Project Activity on Information on Impacts, Do-No-Harm Risk Assessment and Establishing Safeguards Project Owner’s Conclusion GCC Verifier’s Conclusion Description of Impact (both positive and negative) Legal requiremen t / Limit Do-No-Harm Risk Assessment Risk Mitigation Action Plans Do-No-Harm Residual Risk Assessment Self-Declaration 3rd Party Audit Not Applicable (No actions required) Harmless (No actions required) Harmful (Actions required) Operationa l Controls Program of Risk Managemen t Actions Re- evaluate Risks Monitorin g Explanatio n of Conclusion The Project Activity will not cause any harm Verification Process Will the Project Activity cause any harm? Environmental impacts on the identified categories5 indicated below. Indicators for environmental impacts Describe anticipated environmenta l impacts, both positive and negative from all sources (stationary and mobile), that may result from the Project Activity