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.

Methodologies

Energy

Industrial processing

Construction

Transport

Waste

Mining

Agriculture

Forestry

Grasslands

Wetlands

Livestock & manure

Non-VCS methodologies