Stefan Jirka, Director Agriculture & Supply Chain Innovation, Verra
Presents on VM0044 Methodology for Biochar Utilization in Soil and Non-Soil Applications

Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) Program
The world’s leading voluntary GHG crediting program

• Rigorous set of rules and requirements
• Sound accounting methodologies
• Qualified independent assessment
• Central & transparent system to track projects and Verified Carbon Units (VCUs)
  
   

VM0044 version 2.0 updates
• Planned
• Expansion/retrofitting of existing facilities
• Embodied emissions for facility construction
• Invasive species and new biomass (not purpose-grown) • MRV procedures for high- and low-tech
• Transportation and storage emissions and safety
• Simplified MRV for biochar mixes
• Possible
• Spectrum of tech production types?
• Biochar carbon permanence quantification? • Purpose grown biomass?
• Avoided baseline emissions?