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ScoredACRForest CarbonARKANSAS; MISSISSIPPI; ILLINOIS; LOUISIANA, USRegistry: RegisteredGeneral Methodologyv2.1

GreenTrees ACRE (Advanced Carbon Restored Ecosystem)

Developer: GreenTrees, LLC

ACR-114 ↗

#71of 141 in ARR (afforestation)#936of 1692 in United States#494of 958 in American Carbon Registry (ACR)

Assessment

CarbonMeld document-based assessment

01020304 Overall 4.7 / 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%.

Analysis

GreenTrees ACRE is a large multi-state afforestation project with verified additionality and a buffer pool, but the verification record reveals an extraordinary volume of calculation errors, data management failures, and methodological gaps (44 non-conformities in validation, 10 in verification) that significantly undermine confidence in the quantified credits. The most recent verification report (2023) leaves reversal risk unaddressed and the buffer pool has eroded from 20% to 16.62%, while the project-specific baseline has no documented reassessment date. Despite all non-conformities being formally closed, the density of errors—species mis-coding, unit conversion mistakes, missing plots, and GIS inconsistencies—warrants a conservative assessment.

Red Flags

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Findings

Risk Indicators

Additionality

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Permanence

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Leakage

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Baseline

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Safeguards

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Double-claim

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Evidence

Eligibility & market

What can you claim with this credit?

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

  • Airlines (CORSIA)

    Pilot phase only (2021–2023)

    Eligible only for the pilot phase: not usable for the current 2024–2026 phase.

    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:2026-09-27

Credit Vintages

IssuedRetiredAvailable
2009
1,1191,004115
2010
42,8982,34340,555
2011
16,6085,09511,513
2012
369,621322,08847,533
2013
477,297421,27356,024
2014
182,626182,6260
2015
1,054,928947,231107,697
2016
165,97667,67598,301
2017
1,107,890997,626110,264
2018
308,55056,958251,592
2019
1,364,185796,130568,055
2020
1,179,164490,122689,042
2021
804,970121,238683,732
2022
716,95989,478627,481
Total7,792,7914,500,8873,291,904

Retired by

Organisations named as beneficiaries in the registry's public retirement records. (+89)

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Profile & governance

Analysis ProvenanceGeneral Methodologyv2.1

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