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Re-assessment pendingVCSAgriculture Forestry and Other Land UseKenyaRegistry: RegisteredVM0017

Western Kenya Soil Carbon Project

Developer: Soil-Carbon Certification Services

VCS-3669 ↗

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#238of 305 in Soil carbon#169of 192 in Kenya#1460of 1608 in Verra (VCS)#7of 8 in VM0017

Score from methodology v2.1 (analysis of 30 Aug 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

Scored2026-08-30medium confidenceLatest monitoring period ends: 2022-04-30

evidence: 10/10 registry documents analyzed · 5 red flags

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Analysis

The Western Kenya Soil Carbon Project is a VCS ALM soil-carbon project with a 27% buffer pool and no reported reversals, but it carries 12 material findings, a high overall risk rating of 27, and multiple cross-document contradictions that undermine confidence in its documentation and monitoring data. The project delivered only about 73% of its monitoring-period ERR expectation, and key SOC data were missing for the entire first monitoring period due to pandemic restrictions. While the VVB (TÜV NORD CERT) confirmed additionality and the project is registered, the volume of corrective actions and inconsistencies warrants caution before relying on its credits.

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Findings

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On this page: the analysis of 30 Aug 2026, marked “Re-assessment pending”. Per-dimension scores, risk indicators, 5 red flags, score factors, detailed analysis, and 10 registry documents (10 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

    Not determined

    The registry data do not say whether these credits are removals or reductions.

  • 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
2019
5,60905,609
2020
22,434022,434
2021
22,4347322,361
2022
7,47807,478
Total57,9557357,882

Methodology versions used

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

  1. 2019–2022VM0017 v1.0last published version

    monitoring report + verification report

    official page · verified on

  • VM0017: Withdrawn (Verra / Verified Carbon Standard) · official page · verified on

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Profile & governance

Analysis ProvenanceVM0017
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