Below is a list of all updates to VCS Version 3 documentation since March 2011, when Version 3 was first released.
VCS documentation is updated periodically and individual updates are incorporated into the relevant documents. Updates strengthen or expand the scope of the program.
| | 2012 |
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| Q2 | Updates Overview (release date: 1 May 2012) - Project Pipeline launches
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| Q1 | Updates Overview (release date: 1 February 2012) - Standardized methods requirements released
- Expanded requirements and procedures for AFOLU projects registering and issuing credits under VCS and an approved GHG program
- Updated grace periods for methodologies that are revised
- Inserted criteria and procedures to determine the baseline pattern of carbon loss in soil, wood products, dead wood and below-ground biomass
- Revised additionality regulatory surplus rules to differentiate between Annex I and non-Annex I countries
- Clarified complaints and appeals procedure
- Updated rules on double counting to clarify requirements governing double monetization and double selling versus double claiming. See Double Counting Policy Brief
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| | 2011 |
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| Q4 | Updates Overview (release date: 19 October 2011) - New Avoided Conversion of Grasslands and Shrublands (ACoGS) project category
- Clarified methodology review process
- Release of Methodology Assessment Report Template
- New pathway for temporary VVB accreditation
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| Q3 | Updates Overview (release date: 15 July 2011) - Introduced policy on VCU tags
- Extension of AFOLU validation/verification deadlines for pre-2002 projects
- Requirements for projects registered sequentially under the VCS Program and a non-approved GHG program
- Clarified grace period rules for projects using new methodologies
- Clarified qualifications for AFOLU experts
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| Q1 | Version 3 released |
