ACM0008: Abatement of methane from coal mines

ACM0008, v6.0-v8.0 have been approved by the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) as meeting the requirements of the Core Carbon Principles (CCPs) Assessment Framework. Please note that to receive CCP labels for the credits they generate, projects using ACM0008 must meet certain conditions. A guidance document outlining Verra’s process for CCP labeling is available on the VCS Rules and Requirements page.

Where the ICVCM has determined that additional CCP label criteria have to be met for a project using a CCP-approved methodology to receive CCP labels, these criteria are checked at the verification review by a validation/verification body (VVB) and Verra. All projects using ACM0008 that intend to request CCP labels at issuance must have a completed CCP Eligibility Verification Report Checklist Template (.docx) attached as an appendix to the project’s verification report. Where VCUs have been issued from projects using multiple methodologies, only VCUs from projects solely using CCP-approved methodologies are eligible for CCP labels.

Per the ICVCM decision (external), projects using ACM0008, v6.0-v8.0 also have to comply with the following additional criteria to be eligible for CCP labels:

• The project only includes Ventilation Air Methane (VAM) and/or Coal Mine Methane (CMM) activities.
• Additionality is demonstrated using VT0009 Combined Baseline and Additionality Assessment.
• If a benchmark analysis is applied, requirements 5.4.2 (2) b) and c) of VT0009 are met.