“Agneerath” - Smallholder Biochar: Restoring Soil, Climate, and Community

Audit Analysis

The Agneerath smallholder biochar project presents a conceptually sound carbon-removal design with an LCA, tested carbon content, and documented feedstock sustainability, but the available record (a PDD and a stakeholder consultation) is far too thin to confirm additionality, permanence risk management, or leakage treatment. No verification body, monitoring data, or ERR figures are present, leaving the project's core climate claims largely unverified.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠No additionality test type or VVB verification is recorded in any available document, leaving the project's additionality claim unconfirmed.
• ⚠No buffer pool percentage, permanence claim duration, or reversal-event data is stated for a carbon-removal (biochar) project where permanence risk is the central integrity concern.
• ⚠Leakage deduction and justification are entirely absent from the record, despite feedstock-sourcing and land-use displacement being plausible leakage pathways for smallholder biochar.
• ⚠Only two documents (PDD and stakeholder consultation) are available; no verification report, monitoring report, or VVB assessment has been extracted.
• ⚠Permanence claim not stated in available documents

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