not assessed
No legal requirement for the activity: the methodology sets rules for it. Our current method does not assess it. CM-F-AR-AMS0004-REGULATORY-SURPLUS
AR-AMS0004 — Simplified baseline and monitoring methodology for small-scale agroforestry - afforestation and reforestation project activities under the clean development mechanism
About this methodology
Small projects establish forest cover while allowing crops to continue or be introduced among the trees. The method measures net CO2 removal through the resulting carbon stock gains.
- Issued by
- CDM (UNFCCC) · issuer's site
- Last published version
- 2.0 · source ·
- Status
- Withdrawn at CDM / UNFCCC · source ·
- Climate outcome
- CO2 removals
- Activity
- Agroforestry
- Official page
- cdm.unfccc.int ·
- Also used by projects of
- Verra (VCS) (1 project)
How methodology v3 reads projects of this type
What CarbonMeld reads
A confirmed investment analysis A-INVEST
The documents show a project-level additionality test, the validation confirmed it, and it is an investment analysis (a numeric test of the project's finances with and without carbon revenue).
Leakage not addressed (forest and land) Q-LEAKAGE-NOT-ADDRESSED
Forest, wetland, peat, grassland and soil carbon: the documents read do not address leakage. Outside REDD+ and reforestation, the rule applies only where the methodology requires a leakage assessment. At the listing stage, the rule does not apply if the programme's listing form has no section on leakage. CarbonMeld applies this rule only where a check of the documents has confirmed its condition; without that check, the rule takes no points.
Where carbon is stored: the permanence start P-START
CarbonMeld scores permanence only for projects that store carbon. Forest projects start from CCQI's grade of the programme on criterion 3.2. CCQI grades this criterion by programme, so its grade applies to every methodology of the programme. Where CCQI does not grade the programme, permanence starts at the neutral 5.0: the CDM's grade does not stand in for another programme's approach to permanence. Direct air capture with storage, biogenic emissions capture with storage, other geological storage and biochar start at the top, 8.0. The EU classes these types as permanent carbon removals. Enhanced weathering also starts at 8.0. It shares a family with direct air capture. This start is our own judgement. Concrete carbonation, ocean alkalinity, buried biomass and long-lived materials start at the neutral 5.0. These types have no class in a public source.
Forests: CCQI's grade of the programme.
Set by the methodology or the programme, not assessed by our current method
- not assessed
Social safeguards and consent of communities (FPIC): any such rules come from the programme, not the methodology. Our current method does not assess it. CM-F-AR-AMS0004-SAFEGUARDS-FPIC
Not applicable to this type — never a gap in our current method
The criterion does not apply to this methodology. Our current method never counts it as a gap.
- CM-N-GRID-EFGrid emission factor
- CM-N-BUFFERBuffer pool
- CM-N-FNRBFraction of non-renewable biomass (fNRB)
- CM-N-USAGEUsage rate of the devices
- CM-N-DURABILITY-MEASUREMENTDurability of the storage
- CM-N-FEEDSTOCK-SUSTAINABILITYSustainability of the feedstock
- CM-N-END-USE-TRACKINGTracking of the end use
The general rules apply as well. Read the general rules.
The rules of methodology v2.2, as they were: the archived v2.2 page.
History and transitions
Merged into AR-AMS0007
withdrawn at CDM Executive Board meeting 68 · AR-AMS0007 version 02.0.0 of 20 Jul 2012
AR-AMS0004 | Simplified baseline and monitoring methodology for small-scale agroforestry - afforestation and reforestation project activities under the clean development mechanism --- Version 2.0 | AR-AMS0007 | EB 68
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v02adopted 28 May 2009source
Applicability conditions were rephrased for adding precision, clarity and simplification. The new applicability conditions allowed for assumption that the leakage is insignificant. The assessment of changes in SOC was based exclusively in …
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v01adopted 28 Nov 2008source
Initial adoption.
Projects using AR-AMS0004
Browse 3 published projects using AR-AMS0004, listed alphabetically. There is no ranking for this methodology yet: it appears here automatically once 5 of its projects not in the pipeline or under validation are rated. Open a project to view its registry details and the analysis available for that project.
Which registries list projects under AR-AMS0004?
In CarbonMeld's data, AR-AMS0004 projects are on 2 registries: CDM (2) and Verra (1). Being listed on a registry is not the same as being registered: the «Registered» column counts the projects each registry shows as registered, and credits are issued only after each verification.
| Registry | Projects | Registered | Projects list |
|---|---|---|---|
| CDM (UNFCCC) | 2 | 1 | See the list |
| Verra (VCS) | 1 | 0 | See the list |
Counts of project records in CarbonMeld's data, with or without a CarbonMeld analysis. «Registered» counts the records whose current registry status is «registered», as last read (15 November 2026); projects in a later status, such as awaiting verification approval, late to verify or completed, are not in that column.
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