- Anchor
- A signed snapshot of the audit chain head at a point in time.
- Attribution
- In social return, the share of an outcome that others deserve credit for.
- CBAM
- The EU carbon border adjustment mechanism. Covers cement, fertilizers, iron and steel, aluminium, electricity and hydrogen.
- Chain of custody
- The record of a lot moving from point to endpoint, with weight in and out.
- Claimed
- A figure stated but not yet corroborated.
- Commons
- The shared, sector-governed layer where verified aggregates are published. Only proof travels.
- Consent
- A participant's recorded permission for a stated use of their data.
- Deadweight
- In social return, what would have happened without the programme.
- Embedded emissions
- Emissions released making a good, counted when it is imported.
- EUDR
- The EU deforestation regulation.
- Farm-gate price
- The price the farmer is paid at the farm or first point of sale.
- Fingerprint
- The SHA-256 hash of a photo's exact bytes.
- Flag
- A reason a record is held back, raised by a check and cleared by a verification officer.
- Hash chain
- Records linked so that changing one changes every later hash.
- Idempotency key
- A code minted on the phone so a capture retried after a dropped signal is stored once.
- Inconsistent
- Two sources disagree.
- Living income
- The income a household needs for a decent standard of living, per year.
- Merkle root
- One hash that summarises a set of records.
- Outbox
- Captures waiting on the phone to be sent.
- Proxy
- The value per unit assigned to an outcome in social return.
- SROI
- Social return on investment: discounted outcome value divided by the investment.
- Unmeasured
- No data exists.
- Verified
- Independently corroborated.
- Verification officer
- The role that resolves flags and countersigns anchors.