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ScoredACRForest CarbonVIRGINIA, USRegistry: RegisteredGeneral Methodologyv2.1

Cumberland Forest Highlands IFM

Developer: The Nature Conservancy

ACR-248 ↗

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#237of 389 in Water#873of 1716 in United States#454of 957 in American Carbon Registry (ACR)

Assessment

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01020304 Overall 4.8 / 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%.

Scored2026-09-12high confidence

evidence:47/47registry documents analyzed · 3red flags

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Analysis

The Cumberland Forest Highlands IFM project is a 25-year ACR forest carbon project with a reported reversal event (growth-modeling error and surface-mining land-use change) that was offset-compensated in 2023. A critical contradiction exists between the PDD (19.24% buffer pool) and the 2016 monitoring report (0%), and no leakage treatment is documented for a project type where leakage is expected. Safeguards documentation is weak, with no FPIC, no grievance mechanism, and the methodology stating safeguards are not mentioned.

Red Flags

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Findings

Risk Indicators

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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:2026-09-27

Credit Vintages

IssuedRetiredAvailable
2016
2,952,61900
2017
301,15700
2018
137,69800
2020
3,30000
2021
83,87600
2022
156,30000
2023
170,20700
2024
146,1960146,196
2025
3,98903,989
Total3,955,3420150,185

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Analysis ProvenanceGeneral Methodologyv2.1
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