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VM0034 — Canadian Forest Carbon Offset Methodology

About this methodology

Projects change forest management to retain or increase carbon in forests and wood products. The method measures avoided emissions and additional CO2 removal relative to the expected forest management without the project.

Issued by
Verra (VCS) · issuer's site
Version
2.0 · source ·
Status
Active at Verra / Verified Carbon Standard · source ·
Climate outcome
Emission reductions and CO2 removals
Activity
Forestry
Official page
verra.org ·

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.

  • A buffer share under the programme's minimum P-BUFFER-LOW

    The share of credits the project puts in the programme's buffer pool is under the minimum that the programme publishes for the version of its risk tool in force for the project. Verra's AFOLU Non-Permanence Risk Tool sets a minimum of 10% in version 4.0, and of 12% from version 4.1. ACR's risk tool publishes no minimum, so the rule does not apply to ACR projects. CarbonMeld makes the comparison only where its reading of the page holds that minimum: today, for Verra's REDD+ and improved forest management pages analysed since the comparison was added. Elsewhere 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-VCS-IFM-SAFEGUARDS-FPIC

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  • not assessed

    Our current method does not check how realistic the baseline scenario of the project is. An example is the harvest level that the project compares with. CM-F-VCS-IFM-BASELINE-REALISM

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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.

The general rules apply as well. Read the general rules.

The rules of methodology v2.2, as they were: the archived v2.2 page.

Projects using VM0034

Browse 12 published projects using VM0034, 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 VM0034?

In CarbonMeld's data, VM0034 projects are on one registry: Verra (12 projects, 4 registered).

RegistryProjectsRegisteredProjects list
Verra (VCS)124See 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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