California Cap-and-Trade

Personalisation — person + organisation + alignment

Signals the recipient responds to

• Pragmatic cap-and-trade programme-management
• Open to protocol enhancement that strengthens integrity
• CA is the reference compliance market for US sub-national programmes

Organisational context

Specific alignment

Why this recipient benefits: CARB recognition of proof-pack-equivalent disclosure as an acceptable evidentiary package for CA compliance offset protocols preserves programme viability while addressing academic-critic concerns. Randolph's pragmatic track supports this framing.

Why now: Next protocol-revision cycle.

The ask: CARB briefing on protocol enhancement. Schema spec; academic-critic integration analysis.

The ask

Recognize proof-pack-equivalent disclosure as an acceptable evidentiary package for CA compliance offset protocols.

Regulatory-design framing

California Cap-and-Trade is a compliance market where regulator decisions on evidentiary requirements carry the force of law. Property-based per-tonne disclosure is the regulatory-design approach that preserves technology neutrality, minimises compliance burden, and raises the evidentiary floor. The argument is the same in every compliance market: regulators should prescribe properties, not technologies.

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