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ScoredCARImproved Forest Management - ARB ComplianceCALIFORNIA, USRegistry: RegisteredGeneral Methodologyv2.1

Martell

Developer: Sierra Pacific Industries

CAR-1409 ↗

#79of 512 in REDD+#162of 1692 in United States#56of 883 in Climate Action Reserve (CAR)

Assessment

CarbonMeld document-based assessment

01020304 Overall 6.1 / 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%.

Scored2026-09-19high confidence

evidence:16/16registry documents analyzed · 4red flags

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Analysis

The Martell project is a California CAR-registered improved forest management project with a 25-year crediting period, a 17.59% buffer pool, and a 20% quantified leakage deduction. However, additionality was not verified by the VVB and no specific test type is documented, the baseline is project-specific and modeled without a stated reassessment date, and the verification report identified three operational compliance violations (silviculture divergence, RM-71 submission failure, and premature environmental corrections). The project is not CORSIA-eligible and no reversal events have been reported, but the absence of an ex-ante lifetime ERR figure and contradictions between monitoring and verification reports limit confidence in the credit volume.

Red Flags

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Findings

Risk Indicators

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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)

    No CORSIA label on the registry

    Not usable for airlines' CORSIA obligations.

    Source: registry label

  • Integrity label (ICVCM CCP)

    No ICVCM information

    No CCP label and no ICVCM decision found for this project's methodology.

  • 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
2021
293,28400
2022
277,38600
2023
445,61600
2024
268,06200
2025
152,0250152,025
Total1,436,3730152,025

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Profile & governance

Analysis ProvenanceGeneral Methodologyv2.1
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