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Re-assessment pendingVCSAgriculture Forestry and Other Land UseGhanaRegistry: Registered

Reforestation of Degraded Forest Reserves in Ghana

Developer: Form Ghana Ltd

VCS-987 ↗

#184of 305 in Soil carbon#19of 30 in Ghana#1222of 1608 in Verra (VCS)

Score from methodology v2.1 (analysis of 3 Sep 2026). Re-assessment under v2.2 pending.

Assessment

CarbonMeld document-based assessment

01020304 Overall 5.0 / 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%.

Re-assessment pending · v2.1

Analysis

This Ghanaian reforestation project (VCS-987, AR-ACM0003 v2.0) has a confirmed additionality assessment and a 10% buffer pool, but is burdened by eight material findings from the 2024 verification report, a significant shift in the leakage deduction from 24% to 0% with a justification the VVB itself flagged as unclear, and a five-fold increase in the lifetime ex-ante estimate between the PDD and the 2024 monitoring report. The project is functional and registered, but the volume of unresolved data-quality and methodological issues limits confidence in the integrity and claim-safety of the credits.

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Findings

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On this page: the analysis of 3 Sep 2026, marked “Re-assessment pending”. Per-dimension scores, risk indicators, 5 red flags, score factors, detailed analysis, and 25 registry documents (25 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)

    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: project sector

  • 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
2008
4,6404,6400
2012
207,332160,24947,083
2018
140,183133,8846,299
2019
414,333397,63116,702
2021
77,47177,4710
2022
185,931142,67243,259
2023
108,459108,4590
Total1,138,3491,025,006113,343

Methodology versions used

The methodology version stated in each monitoring, verification and issuance document, by period, compared with the official methodology pages.

  1. 2008–2012AR-ACM0001 v5.2last published version

    verification report

    official page · verified on

  2. 2012–2018AR-ACM0003 v2.0current version

    monitoring report + verification report

    official page · verified on

  3. 2018–2019AR-ACM0003 v2.0current version

    monitoring report + verification report

    official page · verified on

  4. 2019–2021AR-ACM0003 v2.0current version

    monitoring report + verification report + issuance document

    official page · verified on

  5. 2021–2023AR-ACM0003 v2.0current version

    monitoring report + verification report

    official page · verified on

  • AR-ACM0001: Withdrawn (CDM / UNFCCC) · replaced byAR-ACM0003 · official page · verified on
  • AR-ACM0003: Active (CDM / UNFCCC) · official page · verified on

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