Verra VCS

A voluntary greenhouse-gas crediting programme and registry.

Verra VCS site (opens verra.org)

The registry entries in brief

Registry entries: 1,833

These counts are of registry entries.

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Projects

ABC Mangrove

Over 7,000 hectares of Senegalese tidal mangrove restored on a fully digitized VM0033 carbon workflow.

Alto Huayabamba REDD+

Avoided-deforestation and conservation concession in Peru's Andean-Amazon San Martin.

Azuero Reforestation

Ponterra restoring degraded Panamanian ranchland with more than 75 native tree species.

Belize Maya Forest REDD+ Project

A 40-year REDD+ crediting project protecting forest in Belize's Orange Walk district.

BlueMX Aztlán Blue Carbon Project

A filed blue-carbon restoration design for Nayarit’s coastal wetlands.

Brazil Cerrado 1

Verra VCS 5511 in Mato Grosso do Sul: eucalyptus on former pasture and native Cerrado restoration, first to be issued VM0047 credits according to Verra.

CAMERR

Planète Urgence’s filed mangrove restoration design in the Wouri estuary.

China Afforestation Portfolio

A multi-province portfolio restoring degraded and desertifying land with native species

Chocó-Darién Conservation Corridor REDD+ Project

Described by Ecosystem Marketplace as the first certified REDD+ project on community-owned, collectively titled land, in Colombia's Chocó-Darién.

Chyulu Hills REDD+ Project

Maasai-led carbon project safeguarding the cloud forest and savanna corridor between Amboseli and Tsavo.

Corazón Verde del Chaco

A REDD+ project in Paraguay protecting Gran Chaco forest holding thousands of plant and animal species.

Cordillera Azul REDD+

Over a million hectares of Peru's upper Amazon, and a forest carbon project whose avoided-deforestation claims are contested.

Delta Blue Carbon – 1

A blue-carbon project restoring arid-climate mangroves across the Indus Delta.

Gola Rainforest REDD+

A VCS+CCB REDD+ project guarding a surviving Upper Guinean rainforest in Sierra Leone.

Grouped Electric bikes project in Africa

A grouped electric bikes project in Africa, registered with Verra under the methodology for electric and hybrid vehicles.

Grouped Projects for Cambodia Improved Cookstove

A grouped Verra project distributing Ecozen cookstoves manufactured in Vietnam.

Grouped Projects for Laos Improved Cookstove

A grouped Verra project distributing Ecozen cookstoves across Lao PDR, registered September 2022.

Grouped Projects for Viet Nam Cookstove Program

A Verra-registered improved-cookstove programme distributing stoves across 30 provinces of Vietnam.

Guatecarbon REDD+ Project

Eight community forestry concessions and two private companies protecting a third of the Maya Biosphere Reserve.

Hongera Reforestation

Restoring degraded water-catchment forest on Mount Kenya and the Aberdares, targeting 27,800 hectares and around 10.7 million trees.

Improved Cookstoves, India (Assam / Madhya Pradesh)

A VCS-registered cookstove project reaching over 72,000 households in Assam and Madhya Pradesh.

Isangi REDD+ Project

Avoided-deforestation carbon project in two former logging concessions on the Congo River near Isangi, Tshopo.

Jari Amapá REDD+ Project

A private-land REDD+ project across Amapá state combining forest management with agro-extractivism.

Kariba REDD+

A vast forest-carbon project on Lake Kariba, now contested over large-scale over-crediting.

Kasigau Corridor REDD+

A community-owned dryland forest corridor linking Kenya's Tsavo East and Tsavo West national parks.

Katingan Mentaya

An intact tropical peat swamp forest in Central Kalimantan, kept wet to lock carbon underground.

Kenya Agricultural Carbon Project (KACP)

A Kenyan smallholder sustainable-agriculture project certifying soil-carbon credits, storing carbon in both trees and soil.

Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary REDD+ Project

A Wildlife Conservation Society project protecting over 166,000 hectares of Cambodian sanctuary forest.

Kuamut Rainforest Conservation Project

A public-private partnership protecting and restoring 83,381 hectares of tropical rainforest in Sabah.

Kuzuko Spekboom Restoration

Replanting spekboom to restore degraded Albany Thicket inside a protected Eastern Cape reserve.

Lacandón – Forest for Life REDD+ Project

A 30-year REDD+ project across Sierra Lacandón National Park run by forestry cooperatives and conservation NGOs.

Lep-lep

A triple-stacked mangrove restoration across Senegal's Sine Saloum and Casamance deltas.

Lower Zambezi REDD+

Long-running Zambian REDD+ protecting the Lower Zambezi landscape.

Luangwa Community Forests Project

A REDD+ project protecting a lion stronghold across 30 chiefdoms in Zambia's Luangwa Valley.

Mai-Ndombe REDD+

A former logging concession in the Congo Basin turned community-governed rainforest refuge.

Makame Savannah REDD+

Maasai-governed dryland forest protection across a community Wildlife Management Area.

Makira Natural Park REDD+

A REDD+ project protecting northeastern Madagascar rainforest, a refuge where every one of the island's lemur families is found.

Mount Pinatubo Reforestation Project

Described by its developer Green Carbon as the first Verra-accepted reforestation project developed by a Japanese company, on Mt. Pinatubo.

MozBlue / Zambezi Delta Blue Carbon

A mangrove restoration in Mozambique, with 60-year land deals securing community tenure.

Niger Acacia Senegal Plantation Project

Gum arabic plantations restoring degraded Sudano-Sahelian drylands that cannot regenerate naturally.

Niger Delta Mangrove Restoration

Described by First Climate as the first nature-based project registered with Verra in Nigeria, planting a million mangroves a year.

Northern Kenya Rangelands Carbon Project

A contested soil-carbon and grazing-management project across community conservancies in northern Kenya.

Ntakata Mountains REDD+

Village-governed miombo woodland protection and chimpanzee habitat in western Tanzania.

Oceanium / Livelihoods Carbon Fund

Roughly 80 million mangroves replanted across Senegal's deltas.

Papariko

Described by its developer Vlinder as Kenya's first Verra-validated blue carbon project, restoring degraded coastal mangroves under a triple-stacked standard.

Papua New Guinea Healthier Homes, Healthier Forests

Described by Carbon Herald as the first carbon-finance cookstove project in Papua New Guinea, distributing stoves at no cost.

Project Colobus

Rainforest Builder's Ghana ARR project restoring degraded community land in the Upper Guinean Forest.

ReforesTerra

Reforest'Action and Rioterra restoring 2,000 hectares of degraded pasture in the Amazon.

Riau Ecosystem Restoration (RER)

A private-funded peat-swamp restoration programme in Riau, Sumatra.

Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve

A peat-swamp reserve buffering Tanjung Puting, now at the centre of a licensing dispute.

Sabah INFAPRO Rainforest Rehabilitation Project

A forest rehabilitation effort restoring logged-over dipterocarp rainforest in Sabah.

Satrokala Dry Forest Restoration

Large-scale afforestation and reforestation restoring Madagascar's fragile southern dry forests.

Selva de Mataven REDD+

Indigenous-led avoided-deforestation across a unified reserve in the Orinoco-Amazon transition.

Southern Cardamom REDD+

Round-the-clock ranger patrols guarding half a million hectares of Cambodia's Cardamom rainforest.

Sri Lanka Mangroves for Resilience Project

Turtle Conservation Project and VNV restoring 3,000 hectares of coastal mangrove and lagoon across Sri Lanka.

Tambopata-Bahuaja REDD+ Project

A buffer-zone REDD+ project pairing forest protection with a million-tree cacao agroforestry programme.

Thor Heyerdahl Climate Park

A VCS blue carbon restoration, part of a wider WIF mangrove program in Myanmar.

TIST: The International Small Group and Tree Planting Program

Subsistence farmers in small groups planting and GPS-counting tens of millions of trees for carbon income.

Tond Tenga

Registered under a CCP-approved Verra methodology, restoring degraded Sahelian land through community agroforestry.

Tubeho Neza

A national clean-cookstove programme aiming to reach 2.3 million rural Rwandan households.

Valdivian Coastal Reserve REDD+ Project

The Nature Conservancy calls it the first REDD+ project in Chile verified under the Verified Carbon Standard, within its Valdivian Coastal Reserve.

Vida Manglar

VCS blue-carbon credits under Verra's tidal-wetland modules, conserving Cispatá Bay.

Vietnam Water Purifier Project

A $50 million World Bank Emission Reduction-Linked Bond financing water purifiers for Vietnamese schools.

WeForest Casamance & Sine-Saloum

Four mangrove species replanted at up to 5,000 trees a hectare across Senegal's two great estuaries.

XiCO2e Mexican Reforestation

Verra-registered reforestation of degraded farmland in southern and northern Mexico

Yagasu Mangrove Restoration

A blue carbon restoration with 30 million mangroves planted across Sumatra's degraded coast.

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