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Authorisation Is the Step Project Developers Keep Missing
April 21, 2026 · Short insight · 1 min read
Under the older mechanisms, a project developer's path was essentially technical: design the project, satisfy a methodology, get validated, get issued. Cross-border cooperation changed that by adding a step that is not technical at all.
Where credits are intended to transfer internationally and count towards another country's target, the host country has to authorise that transfer. That authorisation is a governmental act, on a governmental timetable, and it is not something a verifier can substitute for.
The practical consequence is that a project can be technically sound and commercially stuck. Developers who treat authorisation as an administrative formality to handle after registration routinely discover it is the longest item on the critical path.
Establishing which authorisations are needed, from whom, and on what evidence, before the structure is fixed, avoids the most expensive category of rework in this field.
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