Documents The following documents and templates form the VCS Program.

Voluntary Carbon Standard 2007
The standard for project developers, validators and verifier

Voluntary Carbon Standard Program Guidelines 2007
Defines roles and responsibilities, the VCS registration process and the gap analysis process.

Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use guidance document
Provides guidance for AFOLU project activities and will be incorporated in the next version of the standard.

Biographies of the AFOLU advisory group, expert contributors and independent reviewers

Guidance for projects registered in two GHG programs

Voluntary Carbon Standard Brochure

Voluntary Carbon Standard Styleguide

VCS Gap Analysis Methodology (under development)
Covers the content and process for a VCS gap analysis of another GHG Program

VCS Terms and Conditions for Project Proponents (under development)

VCS Terms and Conditions for Validator & Verifiers (under development)

VCS Project Description Template

VCS Validation Template

VCS Verification Template

ISO14064-2:2006

ISO14064-3:2006

ISO14065:2007

GHG Protocol for Project Accounting, 2005