A-Gas V15

Audit Analysis

A-Gas V15 is an HFC refrigerant recovery project under the ACR HFC Protocol v2.0 that displaces virgin HFC production. Additionality is confirmed by the VVB via a combined test, and the leakage justification (deemed negligible) is reasonable for a recovery/displacement project. However, the project-specific baseline, absence of several monitoring detail fields, low extraction confidence, and a volume of (resolved) documentation findings temper the overall assessment.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Twenty material findings were raised during verification, including multiple weight discrepancies across purchase orders, a material-type mismatch (HFC-227 vs HFC-125), and an incorrect project number in the monitoring report — all resolved but indicating quality-control weaknesses in the project's record-keeping.
• ⚠Minimum extraction confidence is rated low, meaning at least one key document was poorly readable, which limits assurance over the completeness of the extracted evidence.
• ⚠The baseline is project-specific with no recorded reassessment date, and no ex-ante lifetime ERR estimate is available in the extracted record, making it difficult to benchmark the 454,639 tCO₂e verified figure against a lifetime expectation.

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