Verra has published VMR0016 Flaring or Use of Landfill Gas, v1.0 in the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) Program. This constitutes a revision to the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) methodology ACM0001: Flaring or use of landfill gas (external).
VMR0016 applies to project activities that involve the destruction of methane emissions and the replacement of fossil fuels. Projects achieve this by capturing landfill gas and flaring the methane, using it to produce electricity or thermal energy, and/or supplying it to consumers through natural gas distribution networks, dedicated pipelines, or trucks. The methodology is globally applicable.
Both ACM0001 and AMS-III.G.: Landfill methane recovery will be inactivated as standalone methodologies under the VCS Program as of December 1, 2026, and replaced by VMR0016.
VMR0016 includes the following revisions: