Data stories · 2026-10-01

What the registries say when you read all of them, every day.

9,631 projects across Verra, Gold Standard, Isometric and Equitable Earth, with every status change since September 2026. Six stories from the data, each linked to the registry pages behind it.

841 Mta year claimed by the pipeline
Pipeline · Global

2,814 carbon projects are waiting to be validated. Together they claim 841 million tonnes a year.

That is more than every registered project on the same registries claims. The 100 biggest promises are 54% of it.

72%of the Philippine pipeline from two projects
Registry watch · Philippines

Two projects from one developer are 72% of the Philippines’ carbon pipeline

A household-device developer’s cookstove and water-purifier programmes claim 24.5 million tonnes a year. Here is its record in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.

73%of the REDD+ queue on ruled-out methodologies
Methodology · REDD+

73% of REDD+ projects waiting at Verra list methodologies that cannot earn the CCP label

146 projects in the queue are on VM0007 and its siblings; 51 are on VM0048. Their numbers are going to change.

920registered projects late or on hold
Data · Global

920 registered carbon projects are late to verify, on hold or denied. India and China are 57% of them.

Most are wind and hydro, much of it CDM-era, that may never verify again. The forest and household projects in the list are a different story.

1.1 bncredits issued and never retired
Supply · Global

1.1 billion carbon credits have been issued and never retired. Here is what they are.

The market’s inventory, by type and age. Cookstoves have retired 47% of what they issued; REDD+ 65%.

102registry changes, 20 September – 1 October
Registry log · Global

Eleven days on the registries: 102 changes, two withdrawals from China’s largest hog farmer, and India still listing solar

What moved on Verra, Gold Standard, Isometric and Equitable Earth between 20 September 2026 and 1 October 2026.

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