Active 24 October 2024
Outcome Label
Eligibility
Reductions and Removals
14. Agriculture, forestry, and other land use (AFOLU)
The methodology quantifies the GHG benefits generated from preventing the selective logging of forests that would have been logged in the absence of carbon finance. This methodology is applicable where the baseline scenario includes planned timber harvest in the form of selective logging. Under the project scenario, forest use is limited to activities that do not result in commercial timber harvest or forest degradation. This methodology is applicable to tropical, temperate or boreal forests.
Please note:
- Version 1.4 of this methodology incorporates the corrections and clarifications issued under version 1.3.
- All projects registered under VM0010, v1.3 will be required to update to the newest version of the methodology at their next baseline reassessment period.
- Projects seeking to complete registration under VM0010, v1.3 must have requested listing on the Verra Registry before January 25, 2025, and complete validation by October 25, 2025. These projects will still be required to update to the newest version of the methodology at their next baseline reassessment period.
Development History
VM0010 Methodology for Improved Forest Management: Conversion from Logged to Protected Forest, v1.4
Status: Active since October 24, 2024
Mitigation Outcome Label Eligibility: Reductions and Removals
Summary of Changes:
- Differentiating between Verified Carbon Units (VCUs) based on greenhouse gas emission reductions and VCUs based on carbon dioxide removals.
- Restriction of ongoing forest growth accounting to individual trees, species, strata, and tree stands to be harvested under the baseline scenario.
- Modified applicability condition to exclude planted forests.
- Modified applicability condition to restrict baseline scenario activity to selective logging.
- Removal of equation for total leakage and addition of new equations for quantification of greenhouse gas emission reductions and carbon dioxide removals and associated VCUs.
- Methodology title change from VM0010 Methodology for Improved Forest Management: Conversion from Logged to Protected Forest to VCS Methodology VM0010 Improved Forest Management: Conversion from Logged to Protected Forest
Tracked Changes Document: VM0010 Methodology for Improved Forest Management: Conversion from Logged to Protected Forest, v1.4 – Tracked Changes (PDF)
Developer(s): Verra. Per section 2.1.2 of the MDRP, Verra applied an alternative process and authored this methodology.
Dates of Public Consultation: June 10, 2024 to July 10, 2024.
Draft Shared During Public Consultation: VM0010, v1.4 Draft Methodology (PDF)
Summary of Public Consultation: Summary of Public Comments for VM0010, v1.4 (PDF)
Announcement(s): Consultation: Revision to IFM Methodology (VM0010), Verra Publishes Revised IFM Methodology VM0010
VM0010 Methodology for Improved Forest Management: Conversion from Logged to Protected Forest, v1.3 (PDF)
Status: Active since April 28, 2016
Grace Period:
- All projects registered under VM0010, v1.3 will be required to update to the newest version of the methodology at their next baseline reassessment period.
- Projects seeking to complete registration under VM0010, v1.3 must have requested listing on the Verra Registry before January 25, 2025, and complete validation by October 25, 2025. These projects will still be required to update to the newest version of the methodology at their next baseline reassessment period.
Mitigation Outcome Label Eligibility: Not Eligible
Summary of Changes: The methodology was revised to include emissions from:
- Cleared biomass as a result of forestry infrastructure such as forestry roads, skidtrails and log landings,
- Residual stand damage,
- Fossil fuel combustion in forestry and wood processing machinery.
Developer: GreenCollar Climate Solutions (external)
Dates of Public Consultation: N/A
Summary of Public Consultation: N/A
VVB Assessment Report: N/A – minor revision
Corrections and Clarifications: Corrections and Clarifications for VM0010 Improved Forest Management: Conversion from Logged to Protected Forest, v1.3 (PDF)
VM0010 Methodology for Improved Forest Management: Conversion from Logged to Protected Forest, v1.2 (PDF)
Status: Active from March 27, 2013 to April 27, 2016
Mitigation Outcome Label Eligibility: Not Eligible
Summary of Changes: The methodology was updated in order to comply with Section 4.5.3 of the VCS AFOLU Requirements, v3.2, which requires methodologies to set out criteria and procedures to reliably establish the pattern of carbon loss in the baseline scenario. Specifically, the methodology has been updated to account for a 10-year linear decay of the dead wood pool, an immediate release of the wood waste and short-term wood product pools and a 20-year linear decay of the medium-term wood product pool.
Developer: GreenCollar Climate Solutions (external)
Dates of Public Consultation: N/A
Summary of Public Consultation: N/A
VVB Assessment Report: N/A – minor revision
VM0010 Methodology for Improved Forest Management: Conversion from Logged to Protected Forest, v1.1 (PDF)
Status: Active from November 10, 2011 to March 26, 2013
Mitigation Outcome Label Eligibility: Not Eligible
Summary of Changes:
- In Equation 7 parameter CEX,i,k|BSL was clarified to be the mean carbon stock of extracted timber per unit area in stratum I, for wood product type k.
- Section 4.1.2, was clarified that only individual trees, species and strata which were to be harvested in the baseline scenario may be modeled for on-going forest growth in the project scenario.
- Equation 21 was modified to clarify that net greenhouse gas emissions in the project scenario are a result of the sum of emission from disturbance minus the annual carbon stock change in the aboveground biomass of trees due to forest growth.
Parameter BECFR was clarified to have the unit t.d.m m-3.
Developer: GreenCollar Climate Solutions (external)
Dates of Public Consultation: N/A
Summary of Public Consultation: N/A
VVB Assessment Report: N/A – minor revision
VM0010 Methodology for Improved Forest Management: Conversion from Logged to Protected Forest, v1.0 (PDF)
Status: Active from February 11, 2011 to November 9, 2011
Mitigation Outcome Label Eligibility: Not Eligible
Developer: GreenCollar Climate Solutions (external)
Dates of Public Consultation: January 13, 2010 to February 11, 2010
Summary of Public Consultation: Comment #1 (PDF), Comment #2 (PDF)
VVB Assessment Report: First Assessment Report for VM0010, v1.0 (PDF), Second Assessment Report for VM0010, v1.0 (PDF), Methodology Review Report for VM0010, v1.0 (PDF)