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Re-assessment pendingVCSAgriculture Forestry and Other Land UseUnited StatesRegistry: Withdrawn from the registryVM0003

Chestnut Carbon Conservation Project

Developer: Forest Carbon Works PBC

VCS-3814 ↗

Worked comparison example (English)

#288of 305 in Soil carbon#1671of 1798 in United States#1599of 1608 in Verra (VCS)#5of 5 in VM0003

Score from methodology v2.1 (analysis of 26 Sep 2026). Re-assessment under v2.2 pending.

Red flagWithdrawn from the registry

The project has been taken off the registry, usually at the developer's request: for example because it would not pass validation, moved to another standard or was abandoned. It issues no further credits here.

Only the vintages issued before the change (below) exist on the registry. Verify any resale claim against those vintages.

Verra: “Withdrawn”

Assessment

CarbonMeld document-based assessment

01020304 Overall 2.5 / 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

Scored2026-09-26low confidenceLatest monitoring period ends: 2023-01-31

evidence: 11/11 registry documents analyzed · 6 red flags

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Analysis

The Chestnut Carbon Conservation Project (VCS-3814) is a US forest/soil-carbon project under VM0003 that has been withdrawn from the VCS registry. While it has a VVB-verified additionality test, a 15% buffer pool, and no reported reversal events, the project carries significant concerns: a 100× discrepancy in the leakage deduction factor across validation documents, FPIC was not conducted, 14 corrective actions and 13 clarifications were raised by the VVB, and the ex-ante lifetime estimate was revised upward by 26% between the PDD and the validation report. The withdrawal from the registry is a critical negative signal for any residual credit claims.

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Findings

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Evidence

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On this page: the analysis of 26 Sep 2026, marked “Re-assessment pending”. Per-dimension scores, risk indicators, 6 red flags, score factors, detailed analysis, and 11 registry documents (11 analyzed).

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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 assessmentVM0003

    The Integrity Council has not decided on this methodology yet.

    Source: ICVCM assessment

  • Removal or reduction

    Not determined

    The registry data do not say whether these credits are removals or reductions.

  • 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
2022
1,46401,464
2023
4000400
Total1,86401,864

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Analysis ProvenanceVM0003
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