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Finite Carbon - Cook's Branch Conservancy IFM

Developer: Conservancy Management, LLC

ACR-257 ↗

#167of 383 in Water#656of 1661 in United States#342of 934 in American Carbon Registry (ACR)

Assessment

CarbonMeld document-based assessment

01020304 Overall 5.1 / 10 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%.

Analysis

This ACR forest carbon project (Cook's Branch Conservancy IFM, Texas) has a quantified 20% leakage deduction and no material findings, but additionality was not verified by the VVB and no specific test type is documented. A contradiction between two monitoring reports on claimed ERR (2,310 vs 2,899 tCO2e) and a large gap relative to the verified figure (218,667 tCO2e) raise data-reliability concerns. Safeguards documentation is inconsistent across documents, with FPIC and a grievance mechanism both absent.

Red Flags

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Findings

Risk Indicators

Additionality

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Permanence

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Leakage

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Baseline

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Safeguards

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Double-claim

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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 Exhausted

IssuedRetiredAvailable
2015
218,66700
2016
3,79800
2017
2,88900
2018
3,45100
2019
2,89800
2020
2,89800
2021
2,31000
Total236,91100

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Analysis ProvenanceGeneral Methodologyv2.1

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