The Project
The Jedon Kotler Project
The Jedon Kotler Project is a defined, asset-based climate mitigation project structured around the permanent forbearance of hydrocarbon production from an identified oil and gas reserve in California.
The project is designed to prevent greenhouse gas emissions at the source by legally and operationally ensuring that recoverable hydrocarbons remain unextracted. Rather than relying on offsetting activities or post-emission remediation, the project operates by removing future production from the system altogether and maintaining long-term control over the underlying asset.
Project Foundation
The project is grounded in three foundational elements: a physically defined reserve, a binding legal structure, and an auditable framework for monitoring and verification.
Reserve volumes are supported by independent engineering analysis. Legal forbearance instruments establish enforceable and durable restrictions on production. Together, these elements define a clear project boundary—both geographically and operationally—and create the conditions necessary for credible emissions avoidance.
The project is not abstract, pooled, or portfolio-based. It is tied to a specific asset, a documented chain of title, and a known development history. All project obligations, including monitoring and reporting, are anchored to this defined scope.
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Project Action
The core project activity is extraction forbearance: a deliberate, legally binding decision not to produce hydrocarbons that would otherwise be recoverable under business-as-usual conditions. This action has direct implications across the full emissions lifecycle. By preventing production, the project avoids upstream operational emissions, midstream processing and transport emissions, and downstream combustion emissions that would result from use of the produced fuel. The project therefore addresses emissions avoidance through prevention rather than substitution, efficiency gains, or compensatory mechanisms.
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Verification and Accountability
From inception, the project has been structured to support independent review. Quantification, monitoring, and verification processes are designed to align with recognized international standards and third-party validation requirements. Ongoing accountability is maintained through defined monitoring obligations, documented controls, and periodic verification. These mechanisms are intended to ensure that the forbearance remains effective over time and that project outcomes remain defensible under audit, disclosure, and regulatory review.
A Defined Project, Not a Concept
The Jedon Kotler Project is intentionally structured as a project, not a framework, theory, or product category.
It exists as a bounded intervention with a specific asset, a clear action, and an enforceable outcome. The pages that follow explore the methodology, verification, transaction structure, and governance mechanisms that support this design, but they all trace back to this single project definition.