The development of
the CCB Standards has been an open and transparent
process. The first draft was written by the NGO members of the CCBA
and opened to the public for a 3-month comment period in 2004. Community
and environmental groups, companies, academics, project developers
and others contributed comments. The draft Standards were then field-tested
on existing and planned projects in Indonesia, Tanzania, Peru, Bolivia
Ecuador, Scotland, and Madagascar. Based on the public comments and
field test results a second draft was created and turned over to
three independent Advising Institutions. These institutions worked
with the original Standards authors to produce the First Edition
of the Standards, which was released in May 2005.
In February 2008 the CCBA began a revision of the Standards as described
in the Terms of Reference, Procedures and
Work Plan for the Revision of the CCB Standards. The revision process
was completed in December 2008, and the CCB Standards Second Edition
was launched on Dec 6, 2008, at Forest Day 2 in Poznan, Poland.
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