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Re-assessment pendingVCSAgriculture Forestry and Other Land UseKenyaRegistry: Verification overdueAR-AMS0001

TIST Program in Kenya, VCS 004

Developer: Clean Air Action Corporation

VCS-597 ↗

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#186of 305 in Soil carbon#110of 192 in Kenya#1234of 1608 in Verra (VCS)#6of 16 in AR-AMS0001

Score from methodology v2.1 (analysis of 10 Sep 2026). Re-assessment under v2.2 pending.

Assessment

CarbonMeld document-based assessment

01020304 Overall 5.0 / 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

Scored2026-09-10low confidenceLatest monitoring period ends: 2020-05-22

evidence: 23/23 registry documents analyzed · 5 red flags

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Analysis

The TIST Program in Kenya is a long-running (since 2004) smallholder agroforestry project with VVB-verified additionality and a 10% buffer pool, but it is undermined by a project-specific baseline, a 0% leakage deduction justified only as 'deemed negligible,' and a very low pro-rata delivery rate (~6% of the lifetime ex-ante expectation for the 2015–2020 monitoring window). The verification report lists over twenty material findings and fourteen corrective actions, including arithmetic errors in buffer tables, a missing non-permanence appendix, and 433 project areas held at zero carbon pending requantification, all of which erode confidence in the integrity and transparency of the credit claims.

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Findings

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On this page: the analysis of 10 Sep 2026, marked “Re-assessment pending”. Per-dimension scores, risk indicators, 5 red flags, score factors, detailed analysis, and 23 registry documents (23 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: 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:2026-10-25

Credit VintagesExhausted

IssuedRetiredAvailable
2004
6,4256,4250
2011
20,41920,4190
2015
3,7313,7310
Total30,57530,5750

Methodology versions used

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

  1. 2004–2010AR-AMS0001 v5.0since replaced by v6.0

    monitoring report

    official page · verified on

  2. 2004–2010AR-AMS0001version not stated in the document

    verification report

  3. 2011–2015AR-AMS0001 v5.0since replaced by v6.0

    monitoring report + verification report

    official page · verified on

  4. 2015–2020AR-AMS0001 v5.0since replaced by v6.0

    monitoring report + verification report

    official page · verified on

  5. Period not statedAR-AMS0001 v5.0since replaced by v6.0

    verification report

    official page · verified on

  • AR-AMS0001: Withdrawn (CDM / UNFCCC) · replaced byAR-AMS0007 · official page · verified on

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Analysis ProvenanceAR-AMS0001
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