Linked from

The 12 pages that link to Additionality, each with the reason it gives.

• Carbon sequestrationRelated: A sequestration project needs a credible counterfactual to establish its climate benefit.

• Nature-based solutionsRelated: It tests whether claimed environmental gains exceed what would have happened anyway.

• Carbon sinkRelated: It tests whether a project creates extra uptake rather than crediting an existing sink.

• Climate financeRelated: Climate-finance debates ask whether reported support is genuinely additional to existing aid.

• Regenerative agricultureRelated: It distinguishes new environmental gains from practices or improvements that would have happened anyway.

• Special economic zoneRelated: It tests whether zone investment is genuinely new or merely relocated from elsewhere.

• Carbon dioxide removalRelated: Removal claims depend on showing that carbon storage is additional to what would otherwise happen.

• Carbon offsetRelated: Without additionality, crediting rewards reductions that would have happened anyway.

• REDD+Related: REDD+ credit claims depend on whether forest protection exceeds the baseline scenario.

• Official development assistanceRelated: ODA claims raise questions about whether aid supplements or relabels existing spending.

• Green hydrogenRelated: It addresses whether electrolyzers cause genuinely additional renewable electricity generation.

• European Bank for Reconstruction and DevelopmentRelated: The EBRD uses this principle to assess whether its financing adds value beyond what markets provide.