Agroforestry plantations in India

Audit Analysis

A small-scale (35.5 ha) agroforestry project in Gujarat and Rajasthan with VVB-confirmed additionality and a 19% buffer pool, but undermined by a 375-fold discrepancy between two PDD versions on the claimed ERR, a 0% leakage deduction with contradictory justification across documents, and low extraction confidence across the 14-document record. The project is registered and operational, but data reliability issues prevent a confident quality assessment.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠The 2022 PDD states a claimed ERR of 17,529,231 tCO2e while the 2025 PDD states 46,669 tCO2e — a 375-fold discrepancy that cannot be reconciled from the available documents and raises serious questions about the ex-ante estimate or unit consistency.
• ⚠Leakage deduction is 0% with the verification report (Dec 2025) stating the justification is 'not addressed,' while the monitoring report (Mar 2024) describes it as 'quantified' — an unresolved contradiction in a project type where displacement of existing vegetation is plausible.
• ⚠43 corrective actions were raised during validation, indicating significant initial documentation or design deficiencies that required remediation before registration.
• ⚠Minimum extraction confidence across the document set is rated low, meaning at least one key document was poorly readable and the structured record may be incomplete.

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