Verra Releases Updated Article 6 and CORSIA Label Guidance, New Buyer Resource 

Verra has published corrections and clarifications to two agriculture methodologies and one tool in the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) Program: VM0032 Methodology for the Adoption of Sustainable Grasslands through Adjustment of Fire and Grazing, v1.0; VM0042 Improved Agricultural Land Management, v2.1; and VT0014 Estimating Organic Carbon Stocks Using Digital Soil Mapping, v1.0.

Projects using these methodologies and the tool facilitate the scaling up of soil carbon sequestration activities, an important nature-based solution to climate mitigation.

The corrections and clarifications include updates that enable the use of VT0014 with the active versions of VM0032 and VM0042, as well as guidance on the calculation of the mean change in soil organic carbon stocks.

Below, please find a summary of the corrections and clarifications for each document:

• Corrections to VM0032 Methodology for the Adoption of Sustainable Grasslands through Adjustment of Fire and Grazing, v1.0 (PDF)
  • Issued: October 16, 2025
  • Correction to allow the use of remote sensing to estimate and monitor soil organic carbon (SOC) stock changes only in the measured approach, through digital soil mapping by applying VT0014
• Corrections and Clarifications to VM0042 Improved Agricultural Land Management, v2.1 (PDF)
  • Issued: October 10, 2025
  • Correction to allow the use of remote sensing to estimate and monitor SOC stock changes through digital soil mapping by applying VT0014
  • Clarification on the requirement to use the templates available on the methodology website to prepare project documentation
• Corrections to VT0014 Estimating Organic Carbon Using Digital Soil Mapping, v1.0 (PDF)
  • Issued: October 16, 2025
  • Corrections to equations and parameters to estimate the mean change in SOC stock
  • Correction to unit variance of the estimate of the mean change in SOC stock between times t and t + Δt (equation 5)
  • Correction to units for the ratio of molecular weight of carbon dioxide to carbon (equation 7)

A digital form to request Core Carbon Principles (CCP) labels is now available on the Verra Project Hub (external). The CCP Label Request Form facilitates requests from project proponents who wish to apply Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) CCP labels to the Verified Carbon Units (VCUs) that their projects generate.

Verra will automatically apply CCP labels to eligible VCUs where projects use an ICVCM-approved methodology and sufficient information is available to confirm eligibility at the time of issuance.

Please note that the form only allows requests to be made by projects using CCP-approved methodologies and frameworks, which are currently as follows:

• ACM0001: Flaring or use of landfill gas, v15.0–19.0 (external)
• AM0023: Leak detection and repair in gas production, processing, transmission, storage and distribution systems and in refinery facilities, v4.0.0 (external)
• AMS-III.G.: Landfill methane recovery, v9.0–v10.0 (external)
• VM0044 Biochar Utilization in Soil and Non-Soil Applications, v1.2
• VM0045 Improved Forest Management Using Dynamic Matched Baselines from National Forest Inventories, v1.2
• VM0047 Afforestation, Reforestation, and Revegetation, v1.0–v1.1
• VM0048 Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, v1.0
• VM0050 Energy Efficiency and Fuel-Switch Measures in Cookstoves, v1.0
• Jurisdictional and Nested REDD+ Framework, v4.1

A guidance document outlining Verra’s process for CCP labeling, ICVCM CCP Label Guidance (PDF), provides further details and instructions for requesting labels.

Verra recently released a guidance document for Wetland Restoration and Conservation (WRC) projects using the AFOLU Non-Permanence Risk Assessment Calculator, v4.2 to assess the non-permanence risks due to sea-level rise within their project area.

Version 1.0 of Guidance on Sea-Level Rise Risk Assessment Using the Non-Permanence Risk Assessment Calculator, v4.2 (PDF) provides step-by-step instructions for the sea-level rise risk assessment using the Non-Permanence Risk Assessment Calculator in the Verra Project Hub. It should only be applied to projects that are partially or entirely in the intertidal zone at the time of assessment.

While project proponents and validation/verification bodies (VVBs) are not required to use this guidance, it supports their ability to assess local project conditions and highlights specific evidence that may be used to support the assessment. This information is a critical component of the risk assessment.

The guidance document was developed by Silvestrum Climate Associates (external).