<aside> <img src="/icons/tablet_green.svg" alt="/icons/tablet_green.svg" width="40px" /> TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Introduction
• Getting Started
• Creating a New Project
• Interpreting Screening Project Results
• Underlying Datasets
• FAQs </aside>

Eligibility

• We assess the area of the project which might be eligible under Verra’s VM0048 methodology, based on a historical forest cover assessment. The project area must have been forest for the past 10 years, which we determine using the areas of non-zero risk in the jurisdictional deforestation risk map. Results are presented as area (ha) and % of project area that is eligible.
• We assess for project area overlap with existing forest carbon projects, including all project types (REDD, ARR, IFM, blue carbon) and major standards (Verra, Gold Standard, Cercarbono, ART Trees, Plan Vivo, BioCarbon, American Carbon Registry and EcoRegistry). Existing forest carbon projects are shown within the central map panel in green, and any overlap is flagged within the results panel.
• We assess for any peatland or tidal wetland areas both within the project area and a 10km buffer, using the Tropical and Subtropical Wetlands Distribution dataset from Gumbricht et al. (2017). This assessment highlights areas of mangrove, swamp/bog, fen, riverine/lacustrine, floodout and general marshes in the project area. Under some methodologies, the project area and a 10km buffer area must be less than 2% and 10% peatland or tidal wetland vegetation, respectively.

Screening Summary

• The REDD screening summary presents the carbon credit potential over the current baseline validity period for the relevant jurisdiction, across the eligible project area. Carbon credit potential (i.e., the predicted emissions avoidance) is presented as both total (tCO2e) and annual (tCO2e/year) estimates, calculated on a pixel-by-pixel basis as:

  

where:

• Risk is the risk of deforestation in ha/pixel/year (derived from the jurisdictional risk map)
• AGB is the above-ground biomass (from Space Intelligence's Global Harmonised Layers dataset)
• BGB Factor is the below-ground biomass factor (user set in the parameters configuration)
• Carbon Conversion Factor is the ratio used to convert between biomass and carbon stock, set to 44/12
• The leakage belt is not accounted for in the carbon potential estimation.
• Results are presented both in a bar chart and a table, detailing the total carbon potential (tCO2e) and eligible area (ha) per site, if there are multiple sites within your project area.
• Results can be toggled between Total Potential or Annual Potential, and can also be displayed on a per ha basis.

Predicted Carbon Credits

• The predicted cumulative and annual carbon credit potential is presented over an adjustable length of time from the project start date, extrapolated linearly from the baseline validity period.
• The user can choose to see results over the next 5, 10, 25, 50 or 100 years.
• Results are presented as tCO2e through time in a graph, which show both the maximum potential (100% efficacy rate) and the user-selected project efficacy rate (as set in the parameter configurations). There is also the option to see results for other efficacy rate scenarios, using the slider at the bottom of the result panel.
• Results can be toggled between Cumulative Potential or Annual Potential, and can also be displayed on a per ha basis.