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Re-assessment pendingCARImproved Forest Management - ARB ComplianceUSRegistry: RegisteredARB-US-FOREST

Van Eck Forest

Developer: Fred M Van Eck Forest Foundation for Purdue University

CAR-1141 ↗

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#317of 534 in REDD+#1171of 1794 in United States#772of 1012 in Climate Action Reserve (CAR)#133of 250 in ARB-US-FOREST

Score from methodology v2.1 (analysis of 20 Sep 2026). Re-assessment under v2.2 pending.

Assessment

CarbonMeld document-based assessment

01020304 Overall 4.3 / 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

Scored2026-09-20medium confidenceLatest monitoring period ends: 2022-12-31

evidence:21/21registry documents analyzed · 5red flags

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Analysis

The Van Eck Forest project is a California CAR compliance offset for improved forest management with a 25-year crediting period. While it features a quantified 20% leakage deduction, a buffer pool, and no reported carbon-stock reversals, the 2023 verification report identified 15 material findings—including multiple non-conformity reports on duplicate trees, incorrect wood-product classes, and duplicated plots—along with 12 required corrective actions. A direct contradiction within the same verification report (10,031 vs 6,218 tCO₂e) and a buffer-pool discrepancy between monitoring reports (0.2% vs 19.24%) raise serious data-reliability concerns that undermine confidence in the claimed emission reductions.

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Findings

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Evidence

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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: 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:2026-10-04

Credit Vintages Exhausted

IssuedRetiredAvailable
2016
10,43300
2017
3,81500
2018
6,45400
2019
15,74800
2020
9,63000
2021
6,21800
2022
10,03100
Total62,32900

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Analysis ProvenanceCompliance Offset Protocol—U.S. Forest Projects
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