What happens at registry submission for a carbon removal project?

On Verra you open a registry account, list the project on the pipeline, sit through a 30-day public comment period, finish validation and submit the registration request with its documents. Verra reviews and sends findings to the verifier. After verification and the issuance levy, credits land in the proponent's account.

Step by step on Verra

1. Open a Verra Registry account. Anyone can apply at any time.
2. List the project on the pipeline as under development (no verifier yet) or under validation (verifier contracted), with a listing representation signed as a deed, and pay the listing fee.
3. Once listed as under validation, the project goes through a 30-day public comment period.
4. The verifier completes validation, and the project requests registration, with or without its first verification.
5. Verra reviews the request and can raise up to three rounds of findings for the verifier.
6. For issuance, the registry runs automated checks, creates serial numbers and invoices the levy. Once it is paid, credits go into the proponent's account.

Documents for registration

• Project description and registration representation.
• Validation report and validation representation.
• Calculation spreadsheets and a geolocation file.
• Evidence of the right to operate and the right to the reductions.
• Non-permanence risk report, buffer deed and proof of verifier contracting, where relevant.

What trips projects up

• Issues raised in Verra's listing review must be answered within 90 days, or the project is made inactive.
• The next verification must be submitted within five years of registration or the last approval.
• Projects on a digitalised methodology submit through the Verra Project Hub, not by email.

Which version applies

These steps follow Verra's Registration and Issuance Process v5.0, issued on 16 December 2025. Version 4.6 stays active until 1 July 2027, so confirm which one your project follows.

What Senseible does here

Registry submission is one of Senseible's carbon removal capabilities: it starts from the same verifier evidence pack the verifier checked. Verra decides on registration and issuance.

• Carbon removal projects
• What goes in a verifier pack
• How long issuance takes
• Carbon credit platforms

Sources: Verra, Registration and Issuance Process, v5.0 (16 December 2025), Verra, VCS Program Details: rules, versions and effective dates (v4 documents active until 1 July 2027)

Last reviewed 2026-11-02.