# What is The Planetary Carbon Standard? • Planetary Carbon Standard (PCS) is a carbon standard that can be used for the validation and verification of sustainable projects of all sizes from all around the world. • PCS aims to provide services on Carbon related activities covering the Afforestation and Reforestation sector and the Energy sector. The PCS is a simplified version of standards developed by a set of internationally recognized experts and is a blockchain-based carbon standard that assures transparency. • PCS can be used by anyone for the purpose of validation and verification of nature-based, sustainable development projects from small-scale to large-scale, in any geographical region in the world, as the requirement-based standard for the said sectors, for the purpose of issuing Carbon Credits. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://saveplanetearth.gitbook.io/spe-documentation/faqs/what-is-the-planetary-carbon-standard.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.