Milestone
Strengthening VVB capacity in Africa
On the validation-and-verification bottleneck slowing African carbon projects.
Mar 2026
Straatos contributed insights to a report by VCMI, Perspectives Climate Group and GIZ on strengthening validation-and-verification body (VVB) capacity in Africa — where scarce verification capacity means delays and higher costs. Our contribution: digitising workflows and standardising data formats to shorten validation cycles for high-integrity projects.