VM0045 — Improved Forest Management Using Dynamic Matched Baselines from National Forest Inventories

What CarbonMeld reads

• Integrity shown

  Additionality: the methodology itself gives it (VM0045 v1.1 summary, p. 5). The project needs no test of its own. CM-F-VM0045-ADDITIONALITY

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  Buffer pool: the methodology sets rules for it (VM0045 v1.1 calculation of VCUs, p. 29). CarbonMeld reads it in the project's documents. CM-F-VM0045-BUFFER

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• 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

  No legal requirement for the activity: the methodology sets rules for it. Our current method does not assess it. CM-F-VM0045-REGULATORY-SURPLUS

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• not assessed

  Social safeguards and consent of communities (FPIC): the methodology sets rules for it in some cases. Our current method does not assess it. CM-F-VM0045-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-VM0045-BASELINE-REALISM

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