Value Chain Abatement
Qualifying Value Chain Abatement (VCA) investments include projects undertaken to reduce emissions within a company’s direct operations or supply chain necessary to meet company net-zero targets.
18 articles
- General criteria for eligible VCA projects
- Timing considerations: when VCA spend must occur
- Deciding whether a VCA project is eligible
- Carrying forward VCA investments from year to year
- Eligibility of large, multi-purpose expenditures
- VCA Eligibility for Software Spend - Companies with Significant Scope 3.15 Emissions
- Counting ongoing VCA expenditures
- VCA projects for Service-based businesses
- Eligibility of purchases from other certified entities
- Attestation
- Documenting VCA price premium investments (QCC)
- Documenting VCA direct cost (capital/lease/services) investments
- Documenting and accounting for the value of tax credits for VCA projects
- Documenting the purchase of finished goods (not raw materials)
- Handling hundreds of SKUs with preferred inputs
- Estimating projected emission reductions from VCA price premium investments
- Criteria for demonstrating GHG benefits of mitigation projects