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Re-assessment pendingVCSavoidanceCambodiaVintage 2015Registry: Issuance requestedVM0009

Southern Cardamom

Developer: Wildlife Alliance

VCS-1748 ↗

#401of 534 in REDD+#27of 27 in Cambodia#1574of 1609 in Verra (VCS)#8of 9 in VM0009

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

Assessment

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01020304 Overall 2.3 / 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

The Southern Cardamom REDD+ project is under active Verra review with credit issuance suspended following severe, well-documented human rights violations including alleged forced evictions, property destruction, and arbitrary arrests of indigenous community members. The project delivered only approximately 19% of its pro-rata expected emission reductions for the monitored period, and multiple contradictions exist across documents regarding baseline method, additionality test type, and ERR figures. The combination of unresolved human rights findings, 63 non-conformity reports, and fundamental questions about the validity of the avoidance claim renders this project extremely high-risk.

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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

    Emission reduction or avoidance

    Prevents or reduces emissions — fits contribution claims, not SBTi neutralisation.

    Source: methodology

  • 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
2015
3,982,3782,220,262366,203
2016
3,982,3782,307,1811,675,197
2017
3,982,378673,4323,308,946
2018
3,946,2771,081,2252,865,052
2019
3,946,277505,5733,115,704
2020
3,946,277283,5693,137,708
2021
3,841,272586,3543,154,918
Total27,627,2377,657,59617,623,728

Methodology versions used

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

  1. 2015–2017VM0009 v3.0last published version

    monitoring report

    official page · verified on

  2. 2018–2020VM0009 v3.0last published version

    monitoring report + verification report

    official page · verified on

  3. 2021VM0009 v3.0last published version

    monitoring report + verification report

    official page · verified on

  4. Period not statedVM0009 v3.0last published version

    verification report

    official page · verified on

  • VM0009: Withdrawn (Verra / Verified Carbon Standard) · official page · verified on

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