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The project cycle is designed to safeguard the mechanism’s environmental integrity. Projects need to demonstrate that their envisaged emission reductions are real, measurable and additional to any that would have occurred in the absence of the project. To demonstrate ‘additionality’, project developers have to establish a scenario of what would most likely have happened under business-as-usual conditions (the ‘baseline’) and demonstrate that their project is not the baseline. The baseline needs to be established on a project-specific basis according to approved methodologies. Project-related emission reductions are determined by subtracting the project’s emissions from the emissions that would have occurred without implementing it. 
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