Methodologies

Methodologies Under Development

Open for Public Comment

Methodology for the Use of Alternative Materials that Displace the Production Of Plastics

Methodology for Improved Efficiency of Fleet Vehicles and Combustion Engines

Under Assessment

Methodology for Improved Forest Management

Revision to VM0004 Methodology for Conservation Projects that Avoid Planned Land-use Conversion in Peat Swamp Forests

Methodology for Reduction in GHG Emissions from Metal Production Using Metal Bearing Wastes

Methodology for Time-Shifted Electricity Consumption Targeting Less Carbon-Intensive Generation

Performance Method for Reduced Impact Logging in Tropical Moist Forest of the Yucatan Peninsula

Methodology for the Avoidance of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Through Composting of Food Waste Using Insects

Methodology for Biochar Utilization in Soil and Non-Soil Applications

Revision to VM0041 Methodology for the Reduction of Enteric Methane Emissions from Ruminants through the Use of 100% Natural Feed Supplement, v1.0

Inactive

Revisions to approved baseline and monitoring methodology ACM0017 “Production of biodiesel for use as fuel” and “Tool to calculate the emission factor for a petroleum distribution system”

Quantification Methodology for Underbalanced Drilling with Natural Gas and Formation Gas Recovery

Revision to “Approved consolidated baseline and monitoring methodology ACM0002”

Methodology for Fuel Switch to Renewable Biomass for Thermal Applications

Methodology for Determining GHG Emission Reductions Through Bicycle Sharing Projects

Revisions to AM0090 to Include Conveyor Belt Transportation

Destruction of Fluoroform (HFC-23) Waste Gas Streams

Improved Forest Management on Lands Subject to Unextiguished Indigenous Rights and Title (LtPF)

Tool for the Demonstration and Assessment of Additionality in VCS IFM Project Activities on Lands Subject to Unextinguished Indigenous Rights and Title

General Methodology for Quantifying the Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions from the Production and Incorporation of Soil of Biochar in Agricultural and Forest Management Systems

Avoided Planned Conversion of Grasslands and Shrublands to Crop Production

Afforestation/Reforestation of Agricultural Lands

Methodology for Agricultural Land Management: Improved Grassland Management

Methodology for Improved Forest Management in Non-industrial Private Forests

Calculating Emission Reductions in Rice Management Systems

Improved Forest Management in Boreal Production Forests

Avoiding Planned Deforestation of Undrained Peat Swamp Forests

Methodology to Reduce Enteric Methane Emissions in Beef Cattle using Organic or Natural Feed Supplements

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