American BioCarbon CT, LLC

Audit Analysis

This Puro biochar removal project has some positive integrity signals (a named VVB and no material findings reported), but key quality-critical elements like additionality approach, baseline method, leakage treatment, and reversal/buffer provisions were not found in the extracted record. Multiple corrective actions related to calculation errors reduce confidence in the robustness of quantified results. Low document readability/extraction confidence further limits assurance and increases over-crediting risk.

Project Description

American BioCarbon (ABC) is a leading manufacturer of the next great advancement in carbon technologies: biochar. ABC uses an agricultural waste product in a unique way to eliminate legacy environmental impacts while helping customers meet environmental, social, and governance goals. American BioCarbon uses patented biomass separation technology along with other specialized equipment to make premium biochar from sugar cane bagasse. By harnessing the unique properties of bagasse, an agricultural waste product that would otherwise be burned or left to decay and create greenhouse gases (GHG), ABC produces a valuable product and helps sugar mills and local sugar growers. It’s a prime demonstration of value creation in a circular economy, a system where materials never become waste and nature is regenerated. The unique honeycomb carbon structure of bagasse makes it more effective than other wood-based products on the market. The porous elements within bagasse make it superior for use as a soil amendment. A highly advantageous attribute of bagasse is carbon sequestration. American BioCarbon’s bagasse biochar permanently captures carbon in the soil, presenting a tremendous opportunity to advance multiple Sustainable Development Goals (SDG): SDG Goal 13: Climate Action – Take Urgent Action to Combat Climate Change and its Impacts ABC’s source material, bagasse, is a waste product that is normally burned – creating significant air emissions. ABC removes this source of GHG from the atmosphere by beneficially using bagasse and reduces particulate pollution in largely low-income areas. Emissions from the transportation of raw materials are eradicated by our sugar cane plant co-location strategy. When incorporated into soils, biochar is up to 100 times more stable than the feedstock from which it was produced, and a substantial amount of biochar’s organic carbon will persist in soil for decades to millennia. ABC operates a net-negative process resulting in premiu

Red Flags

• ⚠ Additionality test and whether the VVB confirmed additionality were not found in the extracted record.
• ⚠ Baseline method and any baseline reassessment timing were not found in the extracted record.
• ⚠ Leakage deduction and justification were not found in the extracted record.
• ⚠ Several corrective actions were required to fix calculation/input errors (electricity, soil temperature, transport, CORC data entry), increasing quantification risk.
• ⚠ Low extraction confidence indicates at least one key document was poorly readable, weakening documentation reliability.

Credit Vintages Exhausted

Cosa migliorerebbe questo punteggio

• Publish or clearly extract the additionality assessment (test type and explicit VVB conclusion) and the baseline approach used under the Puro biochar methodology.
• Disclose quantified leakage treatment (deduction and justification), permanence provisions (buffer or other reversal management), and the final verified net removals for the monitoring period, with traceable references to the verification report.

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