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EcoSolutions, a consulting firm specializing in environmental sustainability, is assisting \"GreenHarvest Farms,\" an agricultural cooperative, in implementing a methane capture and combustion project on their dairy farms. The project aims to reduce GHG emissions by capturing methane from anaerobic digestion of manure and combusting it to generate electricity. As the lead implementer guiding GreenHarvest Farms through the ISO 14064-2:2019 framework, you are tasked with ensuring a rigorous additionality assessment. Which approach provides the MOST conservative and defensible demonstration of the project\'s additionality, considering the requirements of ISO 14064-2:2019 and the need to ensure the project\'s emission reductions are truly additional and not business-as-usual? Assume GreenHarvest Farms operates within a region with varying levels of technological adoption and regulatory enforcement related to methane emissions.
Conducting a comprehensive barrier analysis that identifies and evaluates technological, economic, financial, legal, regulatory, and socio-cultural barriers preventing similar projects in the region, demonstrating that the GreenHarvest Farms project overcomes these barriers.
Demonstrating that the project is financially viable and technologically feasible, showing a positive return on investment and utilizing readily available methane capture technology.
Identifying and documenting common practices in the agricultural sector related to manure management, showing that methane capture and combustion is not a widespread practice among similar farms in the region.
Assessing the potential for leakage by evaluating whether the project's activities could lead to increased methane emissions from other sources outside the project boundary, such as changes in manure transportation or handling practices.

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