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Methodology releases, governance decisions and operational milestones. The programme is operational and accepting applications: no credits have been issued, and nothing below is a record of issuance.

Sept 2026Governance

Two stayed rule-change consultations withdrawn; a third proposal partially withdrawn

A stay is a pause, and the notice of 3 September said the five stayed consultations would each be resumed against the successor instrument or formally withdrawn. MCC-WDR-2026-001 disposes of two of them. MCC-200 Amendment 1 and MCC-100 Amendment 2 are withdrawn — not rejected on their merits, but drafted against clauses the revised suite deletes, for instrument codes founder decision FD-2026-09-03 item D1 retires: MCC-HYB is abolished with no successor code and MCC-MCU is renamed and re-scoped as MCC-MOU. Adopting either today would write a retired code into the framework it was meant to correct. Separately, the Definitions Register Amendment 1 — never opened for consultation — is partially withdrawn: two clauses that would have registered the retired codes, and two that add nothing, come out; the rest stands and is reissued for consultation. Neither withdrawal is a decision on the merits. Every proposal text stays published, and each carries a notice saying what the proposal would have delivered and which instrument must now deliver it: the forty-year per-unit reversal-risk management period, which no instrument in the revised suite presently carries, and the alignment of MCC-200 to the canonical family taxonomy, on which the register in force and the successor draft do not agree. The determination also records that a ground the programme had published for one of these withdrawals was false, and withdraws it. Three consultations remain stayed and await their own disposal.

Sept 2026Governance

Five rule-change consultations stayed pending the revised normative suite

Founder decision FD-2026-09-03 ordered a rewrite of the whole normative suite. Five consultations open at that moment amend documents the rewrite replaces — the Charter Amendment 1, MCC-700 Amendment 1, MCC-200 Amendment 1, MCC-100 Amendment 2 with the Buffer Pool Policy amendment, and MCC-800 Amendment 1 — so the clauses they edit will not exist in the successor texts. All five are stayed: they stop accepting comment, they are not decided, no closing protocol is owed, and each states on its own page why it stopped and what has to happen before it moves. No comments had been received on any of them. Whether each resumes against the successor instrument or is withdrawn is a decision for the Governing Board. The consultations closing on 8 and 9 September — the guidance errata, the KYC and rule-change procedures, the validation, verification and VVB assessment templates — are unaffected and run to their published dates.

Sept 2026Methodology

MCC-M008 consolidated methodology text adopted (v1.1)

The methodology audit of 1 September found that MCC-M008, approved on 24 August with its unit definition and applicant guidance, lacked a consolidated text in the MCC-200 module structure. The ten-module text is adopted as editorial codification (FD-2026-09-01) and published in the document register. It introduces no new normative choices; every provision cites the adopted source it codifies. MCC-001 cl. 0082 reserves methodology approval to the Methodology Review Committee, which has never been constituted; this codification carries no Board ratification.

Aug 2026Governance

MCC-800 Amendment 1 in consultation: claims rules anchored in the registry standard

The programme’s claim-language rules live in the Claims and Use of Credits Policy v1.1; a proposed amendment to MCC-800 incorporates that policy by reference, designates it MCC-600, and states in the standard the data-layer enforcement the registry already applies. Consultation runs 30 days, to 30 September 2026, with the text published under its SHA-256.

Aug 2026Methodology

F01 methodology texts (M001–M003) open for public consultation

Full methodology texts for M001 (mangrove), M002 (seagrass) and M003 (salt marsh) — one family core and one parameter sheet per ecosystem — are in public consultation until 30 September 2026. Approval is reserved to the Methodology Review Committee (MCC-001 cl. 0082), which has never been constituted; M001–M003 remain under review and no project may be registered against them until it is. Correction, 6 September 2026: this item previously said the texts were open for independent peer review alongside the consultation. No peer review has been commissioned and none is under way. MCC-200 cl. 0040 makes external peer review by qualified independent scientists a precondition of methodology approval, so M001–M003 cannot be approved until that requirement is met.

Aug 2026Project

Gulf of Gabès Ghost Gear Recovery submitted as the lead pilot

The programme’s lead pilot entered the register as MCC-2026-0001: systematic recovery and prevention of lost fishing gear in the Gulf of Gabès, Tunisia, developed with Ghost Fishing Solutions and the University of Sfax under methodology M008 (F04). The demonstration cohort used to exercise the platform was retired the same day. Correction, 6 September 2026: this item previously said the register “now carries real projects only”. Two projects have been submitted and are under review, per the current projects register. Nothing has been validated or verified, no credit of any kind has been issued, and no project has been registered against any methodology.

Aug 2026Governance

Governing Board constituted

The Board held its constituting meeting on 26 August 2026, ratified the foundational decisions of FD-2026-08-24 and referred the governance amendments now in public consultation — Charter Amendment 1 (90 days), MCC-700 Amendment 1 (60 days) and MCC-100 Amendment 2 (30 days).

Aug 2026Governance

Twelve rule-change consultations open

The consultation programme now spans the Charter, MCC-700, MCC-100, MCC-200, the F01 methodology texts, the guidance errata, the validation, verification and monitoring-report templates, the KYC procedure, the rule-change procedure and the VVB assessment templates. Every text is published with its SHA-256; every comment receives a written response.

Aug 2026Governance

Programme rulebook adopted; methodology portfolio consolidated

By founder decision FD-2026-08-24 the programme adopted the counterparty policies, the Project Design Document template and a Definitions Register (no instrument creates the MCC-100 v2.2, MCC-700 v3.1, MCC-800 v1.1 or MCC-850 v1.2 version designations themselves). The methodology portfolio was consolidated: M008 (marine gear loss prevention) is approved; M004–M006 were retired. FD-2026-08-24 was taken up for ratification at GB-2026-001 item 2 on 26 August 2026, recorded as to substance but itself unsigned and attested only.

Apr 2026Platform

MCC platform pre-launch milestone

The MCC registry, marketplace and continuous monitoring engine became operational, exercised end to end in demonstration mode under draft methodologies; the public verification endpoint at /verify/{serial} went live. The demonstration dataset used for that shakedown was retired from the register on 31 August 2026.

Jan 2026Programme

Registry operations framework published

MCC-800 governs serialisation, issuance and retirement finality. Buyers retiring MCC credits cannot make offsetting, neutrality, or net-zero claims; permitted retirement language is enforced at the point of retirement on the registry. Correction, 10 September 2026: this item previously credited the Claims and Use of Credits Policy with codifying these rules on this date; that Policy did not exist until FD-2026-08-24 adopted it on 24 August 2026, so it could not have codified anything on 30 January 2026.

Oct 2025Methodology

MCC-850 AI & Remote Sensing standard published

MCC-850 governs the use of AI and satellite remote sensing in monitoring, MRV and credit-issuance review. AI-assisted screening is permitted for completeness checks; final verification opinions remain a third-party VVB responsibility.

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