VMD0015 Methods for monitoring of greenhouse gas emissions and removals (M-REDD), v2.2
Developer
Avoided Deforestation Partners
Sectoral Scope
14. Agriculture, Forestry, Land Use
Status
Approved
03 December 2010
This module provides methods for monitoring ex-post emissions and removals of GHGs due to deforestation, forest degradation and carbon stock enhancement that has been induced as a result of project implementation within the project area and leakage belt. The module shall also be used for developing an ex-ante estimate of the respective output parameters.
This module was assessed and approved as part of VM0007.
This module was updated to version 2.0 on 23 November 2011 to include monitoring methods for degradation from natural disturbance and degradation from Forest Stewardship Council-certified selective logging.
This module was updated to version 2.1 on 20 November 2012 to rename “planned deforestation” as “planned deforestation and planned degradation.”
The module was revised on 8 September 2020 by Restore America’s Estuaries and Silvestrum Climate Associates to expand its applicability to activities on tidal wetlands.
Document History
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
