VM0047 baselines. Built to pass.
Chloris turns your project boundary into VVB-ready VM0047 deliverables in 30 days, backed by biomass estimates that hold up under audit.
Our workflow exceeds VM0047 requirements, so your team spends less time on data prep and more on deal flow.
Direct measurement of above-ground biomass captures height, structure, and density without the saturation of vegetation index approaches. Fewer deductions, a stronger credit outcome.
Expert-in-the-loop with experience across project types means your submission is built to pass - not patched after the fact.
Three levels of engagement, from a compliant set-up to bespoke work and ongoing monitoring. Every scope runs on the same pipeline.
A Verra-compliant Performance Method for your PDD: platform access, a complete AGB dataset for your project area, matching runs, performance benchmark, PDD-ready documentation, and VVB support.
Everything in Tier 1, but the donor pool and control plots are built specifically for your project. Where the standard inputs do not fit the context, we add custom map layers and extra matching variables.
Project set-up carried through the crediting period: project area and control plot monitoring, SI and PB updates, and monthly biomass risk alerts.
We use the Chloris data as part of our integrity ratings of carbon projects. The Chloris data is a critical input for us to evaluate the accuracy of project’s carbon stock estimates, allowing us to identify projects that have under or over-estimated this key assumption.
Global geospatial data allows us to do this in a comprehensive way across over 550 voluntary carbon market projects.
Having evaluated many potential providers of biomass data, we found Chloris to have the leading global data for above-ground biomass in global coverage and accuracy. Chloris have been very flexible in working together with our team to ensure their data is easy to use and available in a way that we can easily compare it to project-level data.
Tristan Loffler
Executive Director, Head of Carbon Projects and Integrity, MSCI Carbon Markets
Four stages, one pipeline. You supply the boundary; we return the matched baseline, the quality evidence, and the report your VVB expects.
Upload project data and define a Verra-compliant donor pool.
Upload project data and define a Verra-compliant donor pool.
Every project pixel is matched automatically to control pixels.
Every project pixel is matched automatically to control pixels.
Match quality is evaluated and the ex ante performance benchmark calculated.
Match quality is evaluated and the ex ante performance benchmark calculated.
PDD-ready report delivered in 30 days or less.
PDD-ready report delivered in 30 days or less.
Measuring true biomass density, not greenness, gives you stable benchmarks, fewer deductions, and credits that hold up under audit.
Chloris measures above-ground biomass directly, in tonnes per hectare, for the project and its matched control pixels. Growth reads as a stable trend, so the point where the project pulls away from the control is unambiguous.
The same project and control pixels seen through a vegetation index. Seasonal noise and saturation effects dominate the signal, so the underlying growth trend is far harder to read.
Performance benchmarks calculated from each index. The vegetation indices swing year to year while Chloris stays stable, and a volatile benchmark puts credit issuance at risk.
Where the methodology sets a floor, our standard workflow goes further: independent validation across the record, monthly rather than annual monitoring, and flexible containment.
VM0047 is Verra's methodology for dynamic performance benchmarking of land-based carbon projects. It uses satellite monitoring to track above-ground biomass changes over time, comparing project sites against matched control areas to quantify carbon removals with a rigorous, data-driven baseline.
Chloris is a Verra-vetted data service provider under VM0047, supplying the stocking index data that meets the methodology's resolution, frequency, and biomass-correlation requirements, giving project developers a baseline that holds up to scrutiny.
Direct biomass estimation measures carbon stocks pixel by pixel, without relying on land cover class definitions that vary across datasets and jurisdictions. This makes results comparable across projects, and it captures gains and losses that land-cover approaches miss, like degradation or growth, since those methods only detect change when the land cover class itself changes.
A dynamic baseline updates over time using satellite data, unlike traditional fixed baselines. Control sites (the "donor pool") are monitored alongside the project so the baseline reflects what would have happened to the land without the project — accounting for regional land-use and biomass trends as they occur.
Approximately 30 days from when Chloris receives complete project data. This includes 1–2 weeks for initial analysis, a feedback session to review results, and final report delivery, turning a project boundary into VVB-ready deliverables in about a month.
The leakage belt is the area surrounding a project boundary monitored for displaced deforestation or degradation caused by the project. Chloris provides biomass stock and change data for this belt at 30m and 10m resolution through the platform, supporting leakage risk assessment.
Talk to our VM0047 team to learn more and test sample data.
