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Re-assessment pendingACRForest CarbonNEW YORK, USRegistry: RegisteredACR-IFM-US

Albany Water Board - Improved Forest Management Project

Developer: The Nature Conservancy

ACR-424 ↗

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#281of 539 in REDD+#801of 1798 in United States#441of 977 in American Carbon Registry (ACR)#118of 194 in ACR-IFM-US

Score from methodology v2.1 (analysis of 12 Sep 2026). Re-assessment under v2.2 pending.

Assessment

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01020304 Overall 5.3 / 10
Integrity 🔒 Transparency 🔒 Claim Safety 🔒 Documentation 🔒
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

Scored2026-09-12medium confidenceLatest monitoring period ends: 2023-09-30

evidence: 17/17 registry documents analyzed · 5 red flags

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Analysis

The Albany Water Board forest management project has a verified additionality test, a conservative 40% leakage deduction, and a 14% buffer pool, but is undermined by an extensive and recurring pattern of non-conformities across multiple verification cycles—including calculation errors in core GHG quantification, missing evidence for the financial barrier test, and contradictions in ERR figures and buffer pool percentages between documents. The project is delivering below its ex-ante expectation (72% of pro-rata), which is conservative, but the systemic MRV quality issues raise material concerns about the reliability of the underlying data.

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Findings

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Evidence

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On this page: the analysis of 12 Sep 2026, marked “Re-assessment pending”. Per-dimension scores, risk indicators, 5 red flags, score factors, detailed analysis, and 17 registry documents (17 analyzed).

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Eligibility & market

What can you claim with this credit?

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  • Airlines (CORSIA)

    In scope, not yet eligible

    The registry flags units as in scope for CORSIA; eligibility still needs host-country authorization.

    Source: registry label

  • Integrity label (ICVCM CCP)

    CCP-labelled credits

    The registry marks these credits with the Core Carbon Principles label of the Integrity Council.

    Source: registry label

  • 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:2026-10-25

Credit Vintages

IssuedRetiredAvailable
2017
33,83133,8310
2018
13,36413,3640
2019
29,85329,80053
2020
39,22839,2280
2021
39,30920,68518,624
2022
37,05714,85722,200
2023
23,1523,94019,212
Total215,794155,70560,089

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Profile & governance

Analysis ProvenanceImproved Management Methodology for Quantifying GHG Removals and Emission Reductions through Increased Forest Carbon Sequestration on Non-Federal U.S. Forestlands
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