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ScoredACRForest CarbonPENNSYLVANIA, USRegistry: RegisteredGeneral Methodologyv2.1

Hawk Mountain Forestry Project

Developer: The Nature Conservancy

ACR-375 ↗

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#271of 481 in REDD+#967of 1661 in United States#507of 934 in American Carbon Registry (ACR)

Assessment

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01020304 Overall 4.6 / 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%.

Scored2026-09-12medium confidenceLatest verified monitoring: 2022-03-16

evidence:14/14registry documents analyzed · 4red flags

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Analysis

The Hawk Mountain Forestry Project (ACR-375) is a Pennsylvania improved-forest-management project with VVB-confirmed additionality, a 19% buffer pool, and a 40% quantified leakage deduction, but the 2023 verification report identified 28 material findings including a critical error where the buffer deduction was set to zero in the ERT calculations instead of the required 15%, multiple carbon-pool misreporting issues, and a monitoring report that remained an unsigned draft. These quality-control failures significantly undermine confidence in the quantified emission reductions, even though the project's structural safeguards (buffer pool, leakage deduction, no reversal events) are in place.

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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)

    In scope, not yet eligible

    The registry flags units as in scope for CORSIA; eligibility still needs host-country authorization.

    Source: registry label

  • Integrity label (ICVCM CCP)

    CCP-labelled credits

    The registry marks these credits with the Core Carbon Principles label of the Integrity Council.

    Source: registry label

  • Removal or reduction

    Carbon removal

    Takes CO₂ out of the atmosphere — the only type that can neutralise residual emissions in an SBTi net-zero claim.

    Source: registry label

  • 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
2018
47,99647,9960
2019
82,86282,8620
2020
49,57746,8972,680
2021
34,4319,27925,152
2022
6,22306,223
Total221,089187,03434,055

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Analysis ProvenanceGeneral Methodologyv2.1
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