A project is usually announced months before a registry lists it. We record each announcement as a claim (developer, partners, place, hectares, credits, type, source), check it every day against Verra, Gold Standard, Isometric and Equitable Earth, and report three things each week: new announcements, announcements that reached a registry (announced date → registry date, claimed credits against the registry's own estimate) and announcements still unlisted, with how long they have waited.
Announcements are what the developer or press said, recorded as claims. A registry match is confirmed by a person. Candidate matches and the benchmarks below are our inference and are labelled that way.
Asthalaxmi Innovations × Earthtree: 15,000 hectares of bamboo, "5 million carbon credits".
- Area claimed15,000 ha
- Credits claimed"5 MILLION CARBON CREDITS", "5 Million tCO2e Sequestered"
- Periodnot stated (we read it as a total)
- Registry namednone
- RolesAsthalaxmi as developer, Earthtree as partner: our reading of "MoU partnership"
- Typebamboo plantation; "ARR" is our label
Not on any of the four registries. The nearest listings are someone else's.
In the 29 and 30 September reads, no project on Verra, Gold Standard, Isometric or Equitable Earth scores as a candidate for this MoU (our matcher weighs the developer or partner named as proponent, a bamboo / ARR type, a Northeast Indian state and the listing date). The closest bamboo listings in India belong to other developers and were on their registries before the post:
| Registry listing | Proponent | Where | Status | Est. t/yr |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VCS 5594 Climate Resilient Bamboo Plantations for Enhancing Rural Livelihoods in India | Infinite Environmental Solutions | Assam | Pipeline listing approved | 101,846 |
| GS 4893 and GS 4894 Bamboo Plantation to secure livelihood of the indigenous communities in India | Infinite Environmental Solutions | India (no state) | Listed; record created 28 Jan 2025 | 58,871 · 52,918 |
| VCS 2959 Reforestation Project in Meghalaya by Shillong Bamboo | Shillong Bamboo | Meghalaya | Withdrawn | 100,000 |
In India the registered proponent is often a consultant, so a listing under another name can still turn out to be this project. That is why a match is confirmed by a person, never by the score.
At the rate registered bamboo projects in India estimate, "5 million" is about 16 years of crediting.
There is no registry estimate for this project yet, so we put the claim next to the ones that exist: every Verra listing of bamboo ARR in India that states both an area and an annual estimate, whatever its status. The median is 21.3 tCO2e per hectare per year; four of the eight sit between 19.8 and 22.2.
| Verra listing (bamboo ARR, India) | Status | Area ha | Est. t/yr | t/ha/yr |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VCS 3570 Bamboo plantations by farmers and community in the country MP, Maharashtra, Assam | Registered | 4,500 | 10,077 | 2.2 |
| VCS 5047 Earth Maa: bamboo, cashew and mango plantations Maharashtra | Registration requested | 2,274 | 44,950 | 19.8 |
| VCS 2959 Reforestation Project in Meghalaya by Shillong Bamboo Meghalaya | Withdrawn | 5,000 | 100,000 | 20.0 |
| VCS 5594 Climate Resilient Bamboo Plantations Assam | Pipeline | 5,000 | 101,846 | 20.4 |
| VCS 4222 SMG: Bamboo Plantations for a better tomorrow | Under validation | 10,000 | 221,515 | 22.2 |
| VCS 4035 EVI Bamboo Afforestation Project in India | Rejected | 596 | 26,292 | 44.1 |
| VCS 4271 Bamboo Afforestation Project in India | Pipeline | 483 | 21,325 | 44.2 |
| VCS 4179 Bamboo Plantation Based Grouped Project in India Madhya Pradesh | Inactive | 47 | 4,221 | 89.8 |
The line you will get, the week it lists.
When a watched announcement appears on a registry and a person has confirmed the match, the issue carries the dates and the gap on the same basis: per year against per year, or a total against the registry estimate over its crediting period.
Claimed [volume] ([total / per year]); registry estimate [t/yr] over a [n]-year crediting period = [total] · claim is [x] times the registry figure
Nothing has reached a registry yet. The format is shown without numbers on purpose.
Four lists, every week.
- New announcementsMoUs, press releases and forwarded posts from the week, as claimed, with the source. Found through a daily news search by region and project type (REDD+, ARR, mangroves, cookstoves, biochar, rice) and through posts our team and readers forward. A person checks every one before it is listed.
- Reached a registryAnnounced date → registry date, status, registry link, and the claimed-against-estimated gap.
- Likely listings to checkNew registry listings our matcher links to a watched announcement, before a person has confirmed them. Labelled as our inference.
- Still unlistedEvery open announcement, oldest first, with the benchmark against comparable registry projects. A long silence is information too.
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