Independent screening of rice methane credits (VM0051)
Name the rice project you are considering. Within five business days you get a two-page verdict with evidence appendices: what holds up against the VM0051 methodology, what is not evidenced, how the claimed volume compares with an independent recalculation, and the questions to put to the developer before you commit.
Based on public documents and open satellite data. Nothing is requested from the developer.
| Simplified approach: clusters tested by instance centres only; two instances within 1 km together exceed the 60,000 t limit | Flag |
| Nitrous oxide deduction: co-benefit only, not calculated | Flag |
| Baseline: three-year look-back not shown | Not evidenced |
| Internal arithmetic: the year-by-year table matches the stated total | Pass |
| Claimed area is 41% of mapped cropland inside two instance boundaries | Pass |
| About 5.6 tCO2e per hectare on average, 7.6 at full enrolment; benchmark 4 to 6 | Flag |
Page 1 of the illustrative sample, condensed. The project is fictional; the full PDF is below.
Who it is for
What you get
The summary gives the verdict, six checks and the questions. The appendices carry the evidence: the methodology clause behind each check, an independent recalculation of the claimed volume, satellite maps and charts, the market table, and quoted excerpts with page numbers. A flag is a question, not a verdict.
Project X is fictional. Each finding follows a pattern we found in public VM0051 documents in October 2026, and the rules cited are real. A commissioned report on a real project has the same structure, with exact figures and page references.
Fixed fee, from USD 3,000 per project.Quoted before we start; nothing is charged until you confirm.
Download the sample report (PDF) Free: the two-page screen of nine VM0051 projects (PDF), projects identified by country only.Process
Why screen before you buy
In early October 2026 we screened the nine projects then listed under VM0051. On 12 October Verra approved the first VM0051 credits, for the India project marked * below: 211,403 t verified for July 2022 to May 2025, from 20,602 farmers on 17,422 ha. The registry still shows its first estimate, 1,375 t a year on 40,000 ha. 13 more VM0051 projects are under development or in validation, and forward purchases have already been announced. The five listed after our screen are not in the chart.
Five projects estimate more than 60,000 tCO2e a year in total, the issued one included. That alone settles nothing: the limit binds only the simplified quantification approach, and it applies to each project activity instance and cluster, grouped project or not. Read against their drafts, one of the other four names no approach and is a single instance far above the limit; one uses the simplified approach only while under it; one switches to national factors above it; and one measures and models instead. Five report areas that do not reconcile with their volumes. Monitoring is largely self-reported. None of this is a finding against any project; each is a question that is cheaper to ask before the contract than after.
Source: Verra registry and Berkeley Carbon Trading Project offsets database, v2026-06. * The issued project, from its monitoring report: 109,251 t in 2024 from four project activity instances, each under the 60,000 t limit. The limit is tested per instance and cluster, and only for the simplified approach.
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Email the registry ID or name of the project. We confirm what we can check, then deliver within five business days. The two-page screen of nine VM0051 projects is free; just ask.