Mitigating Project Risk: Insurance and Buffer Pool

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Mitigating Project Risk: Insurance and Buffer Pool

Kita. Earth Partnership

The Open Carbon Protocol is proud to announce our partnership with Kita, a leader in carbon market insurance and risk management. The OCP is designed to bring quality to the market through layers of trust and transparency. Kita will bringa crucial perspective to the Open Carbon Protocol (OCP). 

Buffer-as-a-Service

Kita will advise on buffer pool contributions for OCP methodologies, ensuring more robust risk management. With Kita's guidance, the OCP's buffer pool will be regularly assessed to mitigate risk and ensure its effectiveness and quality.

Platform Insurance Integration

Kita's insurance services will be integrated into the OCP platform via API, providing participants with access to Kita's services within the platform and Kita API access to the underlying data necessary to quickly understand the risk of each project.

Over-crediting

In the case of over-issuance of credits based on an OCP methodology + OCP project, erroneous credits will be 'on hold' if the investigation is required (cannot be transferred or retired) and then canceled (unchangeable state) when the investigation is complete.
The OCP will either (a) provide, for free, replacement credits for all owners/buyers from relevant other projects or issuances or (b) provide a full monetary refund (based on the original price of sale, with proof of purchase). Any revenue from over-issued credits will be refunded to the relevant party.
- These will not come out of the buffer pool, which is reserved for reversal events only.
- With prior approval from the Governing Board, replacement credits may be temporarily used from the buffer pool to ensure the platform is operating properly. A 'refilling' plan is required before this action can occur, which is tracked by the governing Board until the buffer pool has been fully replaced by OCP-bought credits.
In the case of erroneous/over-issuance of credits due to an error with the OCP platform, the OCP will work with the project developer to cancel or issue new credits based on the correct calculation. Any sold credits will be replacedas per the mechanism above.

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Kita. Earth Partnership

Buffer-as-a-Service

Platform Insurance Integration

Over-crediting

In the case of over-issuance of credits based on an OCP methodology + OCP project, erroneous credits will be 'on hold' if the investigation is required (cannot be transferred or retired) and then canceled (unchangeable state) when the investigation is complete.
The OCP will either (a) provide, for free, replacement credits for all owners/buyers from relevant other projects or issuances or (b) provide a full monetary refund (based on the original price of sale, with proof of purchase). Any revenue from over-issued credits will be refunded to the relevant party.
- These will not come out of the buffer pool, which is reserved for reversal events only.
- With prior approval from the Governing Board, replacement credits may be temporarily used from the buffer pool to ensure the platform is operating properly. A 'refilling' plan is required before this action can occur, which is tracked by the governing Board until the buffer pool has been fully replaced by OCP-bought credits.
In the case of erroneous/over-issuance of credits due to an error with the OCP platform, the OCP will work with the project developer to cancel or issue new credits based on the correct calculation. Any sold credits will be replacedas per the mechanism above.