Integrity Council confirms carbon crediting program Puro.Earth as CCP-Eligible

Approval applies to version 4.2 only.

Puro.earth is the eighth program to be approved as CCP-Eligible, the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) announced today. The approval applies to the most recent version of the Puro.earth standard (version 4.2).

CCP-Eligible status means that programs have demonstrated that they meet the rigorous criteria of the Core Carbon Principles (CCPs) Assessment Framework for effective governance, transparency, tracking and robust independent third-party validation and verification. They have also met the CCPs’ program-related rules on robust quantification of emission reductions and removals, no double counting and sustainable development benefits and safeguards.

Headquartered in Finland, Puro.earth focuses solely on carbon removal and uses methodologies not yet assessed by the ICVCM, for biochar, carbonated materials, and geologically stored carbon.

Now that Puro.earth is CCP-Eligible, its methodologies can be assessed. In line with the ICVCM’s two-tick assessment process only credits issued using CCP-Approved methodologies and version 4.2 of Puro’s Standard and later will be able to receive the CCP-label.

Jan-Willem Bode, President of Puro.earth, said: “We welcome the Integrity Council’s approval of Puro.earth Standard 4.2 as a CCP-Eligible Program. This recognition validates the foundation we’ve built: a standard grounded in science and transparency, and infrastructure designed for scale. ICVCM’s approval reinforces the rigorous governance, transparency and independent verification that have gui ded our approach from the start.”

Annette Nazareth, Chair of the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market, said: “Puro.earth joins the growing list of carbon crediting programs that have embraced the Core Carbon Principles as the global reference point for quality by strengthening their governance and program standards to meet the CCP threshold. We applaud their commitment and warmly welcome them as a CCP-Eligible program.”

Puro.earth applied to CORSIA in March 2024 using an earlier version of their Puro Standard General Rules (version 4.0) and were considered partially consistent by CORSIA at that time and invited to reapply. Puro.earth (version 4.2) was therefore assessed on ICVCM’s non-CORSIA pathway, which requires programs to submit all relevant information so that ICVCM ensures the requirements of the CORSIA rules as well as ICVCM’s Assessment Framework are met.

ICVCM’s approval applies only to the most recent version (4.2) of the Puro General Rules. This version incorporates strengthened provisions and was introduced in order to meet the CCP requirements. For example:

• Improvements were made to Stakeholder engagement processes, project documentation and registry operations
• Clarifications and significant enhancements were made to Safeguards and Sustainable Development Benefits (including mandatory auditing of the Environmental and Social Safeguards Questionnaire and expanding provisions including labour rights, gender equality, biodiversity, and the rights of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities)

NOTES TO EDITORS

For more information and to arrange interviews please contact:

Conor Quinn conor.quinn@greenhouse.agency
Greenhouse Communications icvcm@greenhouse.agency

ICVCM assessments and approvals to date

Since taking its first Decisions on Programs in March 2024, ICVCM has approved eight Carbon Crediting Programs as CCP Eligible: ACR, ART TREES, CAR, Equitable Earth, Gold Standard, Isometric, Puro.Earth and Verra.

Since taking its first Decisions on Categories in May 2024, the ICVCM Governing Board has approved 36 carbon crediting methodologies as meeting the requirements of the Assessment Framework and found that 22 methodologies did not. The majority of ICVCM CCP-Approved Decisions were on new versions of methodologies (and thus with very low issued volume), which reflects the fact that meeting the Assessment Framework is a high bar. See Assessment Status – ICVCM.

As a result of the assessment decisions to date, an estimated 101 million credits have been approved to use the CCP label.

An estimated 52 million of these appear available in the market; 49 million have been retired or cancelled. Source: MSCI, accessed 19th November 2025.

About the Integrity Council

The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (Integrity Council) is an independent, non-profit governance body for the voluntary carbon market, which aims to ensure the voluntary carbon market accelerates climate action.

The Integrity Council sets and maintains a global threshold for quality in the voluntary carbon market. The threshold is based on the Integrity Council’s Core Carbon Principles (CCPs) and is implemented through an Assessment Framework that sets out what high quality means by reference to those principles. The result is the CCP label which provides a credible, rigorous, and readily accessible means of identifying high-quality carbon credits. The Assurance process ensures continued adherence to the requirements of the Assessment Framework and related procedure.