Tero Carbon, a Brazilian environmental asset certifier, is pleased to announce the opening of the public consultation for the update of its AFOLU Methodologies. These updates align methodologies with international best practices, ensuring greater transparency, integrity, and applicability in the voluntary carbon market.
The public consultation is open from April 2, 2025, to May 1, 2025, inviting project developers, carbon market specialists, and key stakeholders to submit feedback and suggestions.
Key Updates
Integration with Tero Carbon Programs – Methodologies are now fully aligned with Tero Carbon Programs and supporting documents.
- Enhanced risk safeguards – The tonne-per-year approach has been adopted for Avoided Planned Deforestation (APD), while the buffer reserve is now applied to Degraded Area Restoration (RAD) and ARR activities.
- Strengthened socio-environmental safeguards – Reinforcing best practices for all carbon credit-generating projects.
- Carbon Credit Generation in APP and ARL in the ARR Methodology – Based on Article 46 of Law No. 15.042/2024, Afforestation, Reforestation, and Revegetation (ARR) projects can now generate carbon credits in Permanent Preservation Areas (APP) and Legal Reserves (ARL).
- Focus on the CPR Verde market – The TERO.003 – Forest Carbon Stock v2.0 methodology has been refined to meet financial market requirements, including its use for CPR Verde issuance in Brazil.
Methodologies Available for Consultation
- TERO.001 – REDD+ v2.0 – link
- TERO.002 – APD v2.0 – link
- TERO.003 – Forest Carbon Stock v2.0 (tailored for the CPR Verde market) – link
- TERO.004 – Carbon Removal in Agricultural Crops v2.0 – link
- TERO.006 – ARR v1.0 (new methodology for Afforestation, Reforestation, and Revegetation) – link
This is a unique opportunity to contribute to the evolution of AFOLU methodologies and ensure they meet market demands. Your participation is essential to enhancing the credibility and transparency of Brazilian carbon credits.
About Tero Carbon
Tero Carbon is the only Brazilian certification body included in the international mapping of Standards and listed as a registry provider in CAD Trust. It stands out for its flexible and adaptive approach to certifying environmental assets. The focus is on promoting sustainability and including projects of various scales in the global carbon market. Its technical team has over 15 years of experience in forest carbon projects in the Amazon. This expertise combines deep knowledge of regional logistics and socio-environmental aspects of traditional communities with Blockchain technology, ensuring security, reliability, and traceability in its records.
Additionally, the company is supported by renowned institutions such as the National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA) and its business incubator (IE-INPA), linked to the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation, the National Federation of Industries of the State of Amazonas (FIEAM), the Amazonas Commercial Association (ACA), and the venture builder VB92 Launch Hub. With this foundation, Tero Carbon is prepared to lead the certification of Brazilian environmental assets for the global carbon market.