VM0035 Methodology for Improved Forest Management through Reduced Impact Logging v1.0
Developer
The Nature Conservancy
Terra Carbon
Sectoral Scope
14. Agriculture, Forestry, Land Use
Status
Approved
28 April 2016
This methodology is applicable to projects which implement reduced impact logging practices to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (RIL-C practices) in one or more of three GHG emission source categories: timber felling, skidding and hauling.
RIL-C practices may entail a range of improved logging and harvest planning practices, including, but not limited to: directional felling, improved log bucking, improved harvest planning via pre-harvest inventory, skid trail planning and/or monocable winching, and reduction on width of haul roads and size of log landings.
To ensure credible estimation of emissions reductions, the impact parameters applied by this methodology are quantitative and outcome-based, rather than process-based. The methodology has been designed to ensure that emission reductions achieved based on one impact parameter are not reversed by excessive emissions with respect to another impact parameter.
This methodology must be used in conjunction with a region-specific performance method module.
Modules
Document History
Public Comment
Assessor
Environmental Services, Inc.
Second Assessor
Rainforest Alliance, Inc.
Methodologies

Energy

Industrial processing
energy
industrial processing

Construction

Transport
construction
transport

Waste

Mining
waste
mining

Agriculture

Forestry
agriculture
forestry

Grasslands

Wetlands
grasslands
wetlands

Livestock & manure

This methodology was open for public comment from 14 January 2014 until 13 February 2014. Public comments are closed.