Anew - Apalachicola River Forestry Project
#16of 99 in REDD+#74of 345 in United States#29of 147 in American Carbon Registry (ACR)
Audit Analysis
The Apalachicola River Forestry Project is a 20-year improved forest management project under ACR with a verified combined additionality test, a 26% buffer pool, and a conservative 40% leakage deduction. However, the project-specific modeled baseline, absence of FPIC, an internal contradiction in verified ERR figures within the same validation report, and unstated CORSIA/CCP eligibility introduce moderate over-crediting and transparency risks.
Red Flags
- Internal contradiction within the same validation report (2024-12-19): total ERR verified and claimed appear as both 564,652 and 417,842 tCO2e, undermining confidence in the reported figures
- Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) was not conducted, and no grievance mechanism is documented, despite the project being on non-federal U.S. forestlands in Florida
- Baseline is project-specific and modeled rather than jurisdictional or measured, increasing the risk of over-estimating additionality
Credit Vintages
| Issued | Retired | Available | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 276,912 | 863 | 276,049 | |
| 2022 | 282,326 | 4,551 | 277,775 | |
| 2023 | 5,414 | 0 | 5,414 | |
| Total | 564,652 | 5,414 | 559,238 |
Risk Indicators
Combined test VVB-verified
26% buffer pool, no reversals
40% quantified deduction
Project-specific, modeled
FPIC absent, grievance not stated
CORSIA/CCP status not stated
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