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ScoredVCSAgriculture Forestry and Other Land UseChileRegistry: RegisteredVM0007

AVOIDING PLANNED DEFORESTATION AND DEGRADATION IN THE VALDIVIAN COASTAL RESERVE, CHILE

Developer: The Nature Conservancy

VCS-1175 ↗

Worked comparison example (English)

#65of 303 in Soil carbon#16of 123 in Chile#567of 1574 in Verra (VCS)#11of 25 in VM0007

Assessment

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01020304 Overall 6.0 / 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%.

Scored2026-10-12medium confidenceLatest verified period ends: 2014-11-03

evidence: 41/41 registry documents read · 1 red flags

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Analysis

AVOIDING PLANNED DEFORESTATION AND DEGRADATION IN THE VALDIVIAN COASTAL RESERVE, CHILE (Chile) avoids deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) (avoided deforestation (protection of Coastal Olivillo and Coastal evergreen forests)) under VM0007 Version 1.2; registry status Registered (VCS), 516,584 credits issued (vintages 2003–2013). The documents name Environmental Services, Inc as validation body and Environmental Services, Inc (2003-11-04 – 2011-11-03), Rainforest Alliance (2011-11-04 – 2014-11-03) as verification bodies. The verification report for the period (4 November 2011 – 3 November 2014) verifies 72,252 tCO2e. The monitoring report for the same period reports 80,288 tCO2e. The registry required a reversal to be remedied (its credit replacement statement of 2026-08-24).

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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: methodology

  • 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:2026-10-11

Credit Vintages

IssuedRetiredAvailable
2003
91,32072,3580
2004
121,301103,80117,500
2005
48,31347,346967
2006
45,85242,3763,476
2007
38,21438,2131
2008
27,29227,2920
2009
35,06135,0610
2010
36,97936,9790
2011
27,21127,2110
2012
28,31728,3161
2013
16,72416,166558
Total516,584475,11922,503

Methodology versions used

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

  1. 2003–2011VM0007 v1.3since replaced by v1.8

    monitoring report + verification report

    official page · verified on

  2. 2003–2023VM0007 v1.5since replaced by v1.8

    issuance document

    official page · verified on

  3. 2011–2014VM0007 v1.4since replaced by v1.8

    monitoring report + verification report

    official page · verified on

  4. 2014–2023VM0007 v1.5since replaced by v1.8

    monitoring report + verification report

    official page · verified on

  • VM0007: Active (Verra / Verified Carbon Standard) · official page · verified on

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Analysis ProvenanceVM0007 Version 1.2
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