A Better Use for Pig Poo

Audit Analysis

A VCS composting project in Santa Catarina, Brazil, using two approved methodologies (AMS-III.F and AMS-III.D) to avoid methane emissions from swine manure. The project delivered only about 62% of its pro-rata ex-ante expectation for the monitoring period, which is conservative, but the verification report surfaced multiple material findings including incorrect GWP values, missing farm-level data, and the operation of anaerobic lagoons at three farms during the monitoring period, raising baseline-validity concerns. Several key parameters (buffer pool, FNRB, FPIC, CORSIA/CCP status) are not stated in the available documents.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Anaerobic lagoons were still operating at Fazenda Gilmar, Helena, and Colônia Suspiro during the monitoring period, undermining the baseline assumption that composting fully replaced lagoon-based manure management at those sites.
• ⚠The GWP for CH4 was initially miscalculated and had to be corrected to 25 per EB 69 Annex 3, indicating a calculation error in the original MR that was only caught during verification.
• ⚠FPIC status is not stated in the extracted record, creating a safeguards evidence gap for a project operating on multiple farms.

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