Further to this cycle, for each 10 year project period, the project must revisit the baseline in conformity to the currently approved methodology.  This ensures that a project's design and credit issuances are improved and better aligned with results, based on:

• improvements in understanding of climate changes, their impacts and related impact costs at the local level

• changes in socio-economic conditions where the project is underway

• lessons learned from the project and other adaptation experiences, including how impact costs are assessed, and how the project reduces these costs.

The result of such a baseline review is that the VRC system supports dynamic, pathways approaches to adaptation planning while giving project proponents and funders a viable way to plan, prioritize and measure results.