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Zhangye Improved Grassland Management Project

Standard
VCS
Methodology
VM0026 (VCS)
Registry
VCS-2748 ↗ · Issuance requested
Country
China
Credit type
removal
Developer
Zhangye Academy of Forestry Sciences
Vintage
2020
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CarbonMeld's document-based rating gives Zhangye Improved Grassland Management Project (VCS-2748) 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

No public source has yet given this type of project grades on both additionality and quantification that apply here. CarbonMeld read this project's documents. The analysis is below. The page can receive a number once a public grade of its type of project applies on both additionality and quantification. The absence of a number says nothing about the project's quality.

Evidence coverage: high

Methodology v3 · documents read on 12 Oct 2026

Starting point

  • Additionality: no public grade of this type of project applies
  • Quantification: no public grade of this type of project applies
  • Permanence: no public grade of this type of project applies
  • Claim safety: no public grade of this type of project applies

Rules that raise a dimension: 1

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

Each rule, with the fact and the source it rests on, is in the Premium analysis.

Not counted by the method

  • The oldest vintage still on sale, the content of the safeguards and the verifier's quality: not among the facts read
  • Additionality and quantification: CCQI's tool has no type of project for this activity

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
VM0026 Sustainable Grassland Management, v1.1 How our current method reads projects of this type
Our method
CarbonMeld methodology v3 · documents read on 12 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)

    Pilot phase only (2021–2023)

    Eligible only for the pilot phase: not usable for the current 2024–2026 phase.

    Source: registry label · read on 12 Nov 2026

    Covers: credits of this project that carry the label on the registry — not every unit or lot

  • 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 · read on 12 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

IssuedRetiredAvailable
2017
236,725236,7250
2018
553,951378,400175,551
2019
554,515372,166182,349
2020
557,606161,855395,751
2021
555,720223,561332,159
Total2,458,5171,372,7071,085,810

Methodology versions used

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

  1. 2017–2021VM0026 v1.1last published version

    monitoring report + verification report

    official page · verified on

  • VM0026: Inactive (Verra / Verified Carbon Standard) · official page · verified on

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

Organisations named as beneficiaries in the registry's public retirement records. (+57)

Where to buy

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Marketplaces

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Vintage 2020

5723 available

checked on 10 Nov 2026

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CarbonMeld (2026). Zhangye Improved Grassland Management Project (VCS-2748): CarbonMeld document-based analysis, methodology v3, documents read on 12 Oct 2026. https://carbonmeld.com/projects/zhangye-improved-grassland-management-project/.

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