The GCC Project Verifier CTI Certification Co., LTD (CTI CERTIFICATION) has verified and hereby certifies that the GCC project activity “Qinghe County Downtown Area Geothermal Heating Project”:

(a). has correctly described the Project Activity in the Project Submission Form (Version 4.7 dated 30/04/2026) including the applicability of the approved methodology AM0072-Fossil Fuel Displacement by Geothermal Resources for Space Heating, Version 03.0 and meets the methodology applicability conditions, is additional and is expected to achieve the forecasted real, measurable and additional GHG emission reductions, complies with the monitoring methodology, has appropriately conducted local and global stakeholder consultation processes and has calculated emission reduction estimates correctly and conservatively;

(b). is likely to generate GHG emission reductions amounting to the estimated 300,821 tCO2e/annual average as indicated in the PSF, which are additional to the reductions that are likely to occur in absence of the Project Activity and complies with all applicable GCC rules, including ISO 14064-2 and ISO 14064-3, and therefore requests the GCC Program to register the Project Activity;

(c). is not likely to cause any net-harm to the environment and/or society and complies with the Environmental and Social Safeguards Standard, and therefore requests the GCC Program to register the Project Activity, which is likely to achieve the requirements of the Environmental No-net-harm Label (E+) and the Social No-net-harm Label (S+); and 

(d). is likely to contribute to the achievement of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), comply with the Project Sustainability Standard, and contribute to achieving a total of 3 SDGs, which is likely to achieve the Silver SDG certification label (SDG+).

(e). CORSIA eligibility was confirmed. The Project Activity complies with all the applicable requirement of the GCC Program and ICAO’s requirements on CORSIA Emissions Unit Eligibility Criteria and CORSIA Eligible Emissions Units, as per Clarification No 01, v1.3 paragraph 23-25, and the ACCs expected to be issued during the crediting period is likely to be CORSIA eligible and can be used by International Airlines for offsetting their emissions during all phases of CORSIA and therefore request GCC Steering Committee to append CORSIA Certification label (C+) to this project. However, Host country Attestation on Double Counting required by CORSIA will be submitted during the Emission Reduction verification.

Thus the project activity is being recommended to GCC Steering Committee for request for registration.