# How to Read the Credit Passport | CRBN.credit **URL:** https://crbn.credit/credit-passport **Summary:** What each layer of the Credit Passport checks, where the facts come from, and what the results do and do not mean for a carbon credit project. --- # How to read the Credit Passport Every project page on CRBN.credit carries a Credit Passport: a set of facts from different authorities about that one project, gathered in one place. Each layer states what it checked, the result, and the date the underlying data reflects. None of the layers is a rating, and none of them replaces the authority's own decision. Passports are built for all 11,659 projects in the database, from registry records as of 1 June 2026. The counts below are across those projects. ## ICVCM quality status The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market decides which crediting programmes and methodologies meet its Core Carbon Principles. A credit can carry the CCP label only when both its programme and its methodology are approved. This layer shows the ICVCM's current decision on the project's methodology. Registries apply the label to credits issuance by issuance, so an approved methodology means credits can be eligible, not that every credit is labelled. Where a methodology has several versions with different decisions, or a project lists more than one methodology, the layer says so and lists each decision rather than choosing one. - Methodology approved: 711 - Some versions approved, version not in registry data: 1,746 - Several methodologies, different outcomes: 89 - Assessed and not approved: 2,933 - Under assessment: 885 - Withdrawn from assessment: 243 - No ICVCM decision yet: 2,131 - Methodology not matched: 2,921 Source: ICVCM assessment decisions, read weekly ## CORSIA screen Airlines covered by CORSIA must cancel eligible emissions units. A unit is eligible only when it comes from a programme ICAO approved for the compliance period, meets that period's date rules, and carries a Letter of Authorization from the host country. This screen checks what published data can show and marks the rest as unconfirmed. It is not an eligibility determination. For the first phase (2024 to 2026) the screen checks the programme, the dates (a first crediting period starting on or after 1 January 2016, and credits of vintages 2021 to 2026), and authorisation. Registry records do not carry the start of the first crediting period, so the date check fails only when earlier vintages prove crediting began before 2016, or when no credits of the eligible vintages have been issued. Otherwise it stays unconfirmed. Authorisation is granted per activity and is never confirmed from registry data. Programme-specific exclusions are not assessed. - Programme approved for the first phase: 11,425 - Programme not approved for the first phase: 234 - Dates rule the project out: 3,462 - Dates cannot be confirmed: 8,197 Source: ICAO eligibility decisions and registry records · Criteria verified 25 September 2026 ## Host country Article 6 status Article 6 of the Paris Agreement lets countries cooperate through carbon markets. This layer shows the host country's Article 6 activity: bilateral agreements, whether it has appointed an authority for the Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism, and how many activities it has authorised. It describes the country, not the project. - Countries in UN tracking: 198 - Projects in a country with no UN Article 6 record: 22 - Projects with no country in registry data: 25 Source: UN Article 6 tracking (Article 6 Pipeline, UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre) · Data as of 4 September 2026 ## Physical exposure For forest, land-use and agriculture projects, this layer shows published hazard levels for wildfire, river flood and drought. Registry records do not give project locations, so the levels are for the host country and say so, and satellite fire detections near a project cannot be counted. There is no combined risk score. - Projects with country hazard levels: 3,010 Source: ThinkHazard hazard assessments, read monthly ## Recorded buyers Registries record a beneficiary for some retirements. This layer lists organisations named as beneficiaries, with the tonnes they retired and the latest year. Many retirements name no one, and individuals are never shown, so the list is partial. Names are shown only after review: a name nobody has checked stays hidden rather than risk showing a private person. An organisation named on at least 1,000 retired tonnes, across at least 2 retirements, has a page gathering its retirements across all registries, linked from the organisation's name. - Projects naming at least one organisation: 1,593 - Projects with retirements but no organisation named: 3,424 - Projects with no retirements: 6,642 Source: Registry records ## Declared SDG contributions Some registries record which UN Sustainable Development Goals a project declares it supports. This layer lists those goals, from Gold Standard's own registry. CRBN.credit does not measure the outcomes. - Gold Standard projects with declared goals: 4,104 Source: Gold Standard registry, read weekly ## Removals and avoidance Company pages split retired tonnes by the kind of activity that generated the credits: taking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere (a removal), or cutting or avoiding emissions (a reduction). The split uses the classification in the Berkeley Carbon Trading Project's Voluntary Registry Offsets Database, the same one the Portfolio Architect and the Removals Planner use. It puts each project in one of four classes: long-duration removal (for example direct air capture or biochar), impermanent removal (for example forestry and soil carbon, where the carbon can return to the atmosphere), mixed (projects that both remove and reduce, such as improved forest management), and reduction. Projects that database does not cover are shown as not classified. Removals on a company page means long-duration plus impermanent removal. Mixed projects are shown on their own, because their credits cannot be split from published data. CRBN.credit does not reclassify projects, and a class describes the activity, not the quality of the credits. - Long-duration removal projects: 51 - Impermanent removal projects: 1,312 - Mixed projects: 1,056 - Reduction projects: 9,049 Source: Berkeley Carbon Trading Project, Voluntary Registry Offsets Database Each layer's source and date appear on every project page. For how CRBN.credit handles data in general, see [Methodology](https://crbn.credit/methodology). To look up a project, start from the [project database](https://crbn.credit/projects); for an organisation, see [carbon credit retirements by organisation](https://crbn.credit/companies).