Verra Announces CCP-Eligible Status of VCS Version 5

The ICVCM recognised version 5 of Verra’s Verified Carbon Standard, released in December 2025, as meeting the Core Carbon Principles. VCS Version 5 strengthens requirements across the full project lifecycle, with particular focus on social and environmental safeguards, stakeholder engagement, financial transparency and benefit sharing, and was developed through three public consultations generating close to 5,000 comments. The ICVCM also approved 13 active VCS methodologies and the VCS Jurisdictional and Nested REDD+ Framework. Program-level eligibility alone does not allow credits to carry the CCP label; methodologies must separately pass category-level assessment under the two-tick process.
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