verra
Britishadjective
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Verra, the main international body that validates carbon credit projects, suspended credits from a major forestry project in Zimbabwe in September, for which Volkswagen was also a client, saying its benefits had been exaggerated.
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Verra told AFP it had yet to audit the project in Tanzania, or a competing carbon credit scheme proposed by US-based Nature Conservancy in the same region.
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A Verra spokesperson defended carbon credit schemes as "one of the few vehicles that bring sustained investment into rural areas".
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The project has yet to be verified, but Climate Impact Partners aims to register it with Verra under its VM0047 reforestation methodology.
It’s also targeting Verra’s new Abacus label, which is seen as a higher quality label for forestry carbon projects.
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