Forest Carbon Credit Project Data from VERRA Certification Records

Data supporting a study on over-crediting and additionality in forest carbon projects. The dataset includes a spreadsheet of certified VERRA results for various projects used in the analysis. It was created by Tom Swinfield at the University of Cambridge.

Use Cases

• Analyzing patterns of over-crediting based on certified VERRA project results.
• Assessing additionality claims for forest carbon credit projects.
• Comparing methodologies and outcomes across different certified projects.
• Validating models for carbon credit issuance using real certification data.

Strengths

• Includes certified results from the VERRA registry, a major carbon standard.
• Data is associated with a formal academic manuscript for context.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

University of Cambridge

Collection Method

Likely compiled from VERRA certification records for research analysis.