One might expect that lesser quality guarantors would charge less for their product, particularly since, unlike other derivatives, the whole principal is at risk.
The civil society actors act as quality guarantors and communication tools determining standards' integrity and the usefulness of their activities.
Last but not least, a critical aspect of legitimacy is the governmental endorsement of standards mentioned by buyers and quality guarantors.
The project-specific socio-economic and environmental conditions require individual, long-term designs, considering the long lifetimes of forest projects, as explained by project developers and quality guarantors.
Although the latter group, labelled "quality guarantors for civil society", is not directly involved in the production and purchase of forest carbon credits, it is crucial in the context of the topic because it scrutinises, evaluates, and communicates the quality and robustness of forest carbon credits, projects and standards.
To meet these criteria standards have to be independent, free of conflict of interests and underpinned by scientific expertise; furthermore they need the recognition of reputable environmental and social NGOs, conveying legitimacy to the standards according to the buyers and quality guarantors.
Provenance, that's the word - knowing where your food comes from, names and individual farms being the guarantor of quality.
There has been no widespread nationalisation for more than a quarter of a century.Nor is the egalitarian impulse necessarily a guarantor of quality, as French universities demonstrate.
It's actually more complicated than this, which is another reason why "organic" has become an inadequate guarantor of quality: people think "organic" has a clear, single meaning but standards vary between and sometimes within countries.
The presence of Mr. Haynes on a record has been a pretty good guarantor of quality, and it's as nice to listen to him across 50 years as it is to marvel at all the things jazz has been.
