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TIST Program in Kenya, VCS 005

Standard: VCS
Methodology: AR-AMS0001 (CDM)
Registry: VCS-737 ↗ · Registered
Country: Kenya
Credit type: Agriculture Forestry and Other Land Use
Developer: Clean Air Action Corporation

CarbonMeld's document-based rating gives TIST Program in Kenya, VCS 005 (VCS-737) no number (No public grade applies yet): CarbonMeld read its documents, but its type of project does not yet have a public grade that applies to it on both additionality and quantification. The absence of a number says nothing about the project's quality.

Assessment

Document-based rating

No public grade applies yet

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Evidence coverage: medium

Methodology v3 · documents read on 13 Oct 2026

Starting point

Additionality: CCQI's score for this type of project (CCQI does not list this methodology under this programme: the grade CCQI gives this type of project under the programme)
Quantification: no public grade of this type of project applies
Permanence: CCQI's score for this type of project (CCQI grades permanence by programme: this is its grade of the project's programme)
Claim safety: no public grade of this type of project applies

Rules that lower a dimension or the rating as a whole: 1

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Not counted by the method

Quantification: no public grade of this type of project applies
Quantification: CCQI does not grade this methodology under this programme, so no public grade applies
The baseline type: not among the facts read
The oldest vintage still on sale, the content of the safeguards and the verifier's quality: not among the facts read

Generated by CarbonMeld Analysis Pipeline · Methodology · About the System

How this analysis was made

Standard: Verra (VCS) How our current method reads projects of this standard
Methodology: AR-AMS0001 Version 06 How our current method reads projects of this type
Our method: CarbonMeld methodology v3 · documents read on 13 Oct 2026

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 · read on 15 Nov 2026
Covers: this project's credit records as read on the registry
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
Covers: the project type, not a label on individual credits
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 · read on 15 Nov 2026
Covers: this project's credit records as read on the registry

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.

Credit Vintages

	Issued	Retired	Available
2004	61,772	61,772	0
2011	480,617	480,597	20
2016	18,714	18,714	0
2017	128,875	128,875	0
2018	128,875	128,875	0
2019	128,875	128,756	119
2020	50,139	50,139	0
Total	997,867	997,728	139

Methodology versions used

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

2016–2020AR-AMS0001version not confirmed in the document text
monitoring report + issuance document

AR-AMS0001: Withdrawn (CDM / UNFCCC) · replaced by AR-AMS0007 · official page · verified on 1 Oct 2026

A version is shown only when the document's own text writes it next to the methodology code. Current versions, status and CCP ranges come from the official pages linked, checked on the date shown.

Documents on the registry

Retired by

Nespresso S.A80,000 t
Groupe Air France25,000 t
NatWest Group20,000 t
PwC19,057 t
Compensate Foundation18,042 t
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company15,969 t
Bending Spoons S.p.A11,956 t
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, LLC10,455 t
Boehringer Ingelheim Corporate Center GmbH10,000 t
American Express TRS Co8,300 t

Organisations named as beneficiaries in the registry's public retirement records. (+73)

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CarbonMeld (2026). TIST Program in Kenya, VCS 005 (VCS-737): CarbonMeld document-based analysis, methodology v3, documents read on 13 Oct 2026. https://carbonmeld.com/projects/tist-program-in-kenya-vcs-005/.

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