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Re-assessment pendingCARImproved Forest ManagementUSVintage 2021Registry: RegisteredCAR-US-FOREST

Blue Source - Francis Beidler Improved Forest Management Project

Developer: National Audubon Society, Inc

CAR-683 ↗

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#154of 533 in REDD+#372of 1792 in United States#200of 1014 in Climate Action Reserve (CAR)#21of 39 in CAR-US-FOREST

Score from methodology v2.1 (analysis of 19 Sep 2026). Re-assessment under v2.2 pending.

Assessment

CarbonMeld document-based assessment

01020304 Overall 5.7 / 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

Scored2026-09-19medium confidence

evidence:75/75registry documents analyzed · 4red flags

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Analysis

A mature CAR forest project (operating since 2007) with VVB-verified additionality, a 20.9% buffer pool, a 20% quantified leakage deduction, and no reported carbon-stock reversals. However, the project-specific modeled baseline, the absence of documented FPIC, a 100-year permanence claim, and a retroactively approved methodology change introduce moderate integrity and over-crediting risk. Documentation is extensive (75 sources) but extraction confidence is only medium and several minor boundary and strata-mean discrepancies were flagged across reporting periods.

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Findings

Risk Indicators

Additionality

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Evidence

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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 assessmentCAR U.S. Forest Protocol

    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
2007
549,34100
2008
10,35400
2009
10,35400
2010
10,3548,1902,164
2011
10,3548,1902,164
2012
11,0658,7522,313
2013
11,6659,2272,438
2014
19,73215,1924,124
2015
10,7538,5052,248
2016
11,8069,2002,321
2017
17,9238,9192,357
2018
11,5649,1472,417
2019
67,82142,72025,101
2020
123,66550,18673,479
2021
12,4949,8822,612
2022
14,718014,718
2023
15,011015,011
2024
10,204010,204
Total929,178188,110163,671

Retired by

Organisations named as beneficiaries in the registry's public retirement records.

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