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Re-assessment pendingVCSAgriculture Forestry and Other Land UseUnited StatesVintage 2021Registry: RegisteredVM0012

Afognak Forest Carbon Project

Developer: ClimeCo LLC

VCS-872 ↗

#483of 876 in Biomass#972of 1792 in United States#1067of 1611 in Verra (VCS)#4of 7 in VM0012

Score from methodology v2.1 (analysis of 1 Sep 2026). Re-assessment under v2.2 pending.

Assessment

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01020304 Overall 4.8 / 10 Dimension scores are locked — the faint arcs are empty tracks, not zero scores.

Scale 0–10 · method weights: integrity 35% · transparency 25% · claim safety 25% · documentation 15%.

Re-assessment pending · v2.1

Analysis

The Afognak Forest Carbon Project (VCS-872) is a long-running forestry project (crediting period 2006–2035) with VVB-confirmed additionality and a 12% buffer pool, but it carries 19 material findings and 10 outstanding corrective actions, including missing FPIC, no grievance mechanism, and a significant unexplained shift in the leakage deduction from 20% to 0%. The project remains in 'verification approval requested' status, meaning credits have not yet been issued for the current period, and multiple contradictions between successive verification reports undermine confidence in the data trail.

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Findings

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Baseline

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Eligibility & market

What can you claim with this credit?

Four checks buyers ask about, from the registry and the Integrity Council (ICVCM).

  • Airlines (CORSIA)

    No CORSIA label on the registry

    Not usable for airlines' CORSIA obligations.

    Source: registry label

  • Integrity label (ICVCM CCP)

    Methodology under ICVCM assessmentVM0012

    The Integrity Council has not decided on this methodology yet.

    Source: ICVCM assessment

  • Removal or reduction

    Carbon removal

    Takes CO₂ out of the atmosphere — the only type that can neutralise residual emissions in an SBTi net-zero claim.

    Source: registry label

  • Paris Agreement (Article 6)

    No Article 6 authorization

    No corresponding adjustment: the host country can also count this reduction towards its own target.

    Source: registry label

Information only, from public sources. Claim rules (CORSIA, SBTi, EU rules on green claims) change: check them before making a public claim. Since 27 September 2026, EU consumer rules do not allow “climate neutral” product claims based on offsets.

Registry labels last checked:2026-10-04

Credit Vintages

IssuedRetiredAvailable
2008
79,58879,5880
2009
83,51283,5120
2010
87,07487,0740
2011
90,29990,2990
2012
99,20799,2070
2013
101,848101,8480
2014
104,618104,6180
2015
106,52684,07222,454
2016
80,96180,9610
2017
101,222101,2220
2018
35,62335,6230
2019
30,88130,8810
2020
21,33721,3370
2021
33,04733,0470
2022
45,13239,2325,900
2024
2672670
Total1,101,1421,072,78828,354

Methodology versions used

The methodology version stated in each monitoring, verification and issuance document, by period, compared with the official methodology pages.

  1. 2023–2024VM0012 v1.2current version

    monitoring report + verification report

    official page · verified on

  • VM0012: Active (Verra / Verified Carbon Standard) · official page · verified on

A version is shown only when the document's own text writes it next to the methodology code. Current versions, status and CCP ranges come from the official pages linked, checked on the date shown.

Documents on the registry

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