Registries & standardsChecked Sep 2026

Verra

Verra runs the Verified Carbon Standard, the world’s most-used crediting programme, and the registry that tracks issuance and retirement across REDD+, ARR and soil methodologies.

Standard + registryDominant in NbSdMRV pilotsVCS v5
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Verra
Founded2007
HQWashington, D.C., USA
StageEstablished standard body
API / accessPartial
Founded2007
HQWashington, D.C., USA
StageEstablished standard body
API / accessPartial
Websiteverra.org ↗
EvidenceWell corroborated

The registry a nature-based credit ultimately lives on, and the rules the operating system must speak.

What they do

Inside Verra

Verra owns the VCS methodologies and the registry that issues and retires credits, dominant in nature-based sectors.

It is building its own digital-MRV layer (including a Pachama remote-sensing pilot) and updated CCP-label guidance.

S&P Global is rebuilding the Verra registry with a full API, slated to go live in 2026.

Signal

Recent developments

  1. 16 Dec 2025Released VCS Version 5.0; mandatory for new registrations from 1 Jan 2027.
  2. Aug 2025S&P Global announced a full registry rebuild with an API, live 2026.
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