Anew - Appalachian Hollows Forestry Project
#13of 99 in REDD+#62of 345 in United States#26of 147 in American Carbon Registry (ACR)
Audit Analysis
A West Virginia improved-forest-management project with a verified combined additionality test, an 18% buffer pool, and a 30% quantified leakage deduction, but a project-specific modeled baseline, 17 resolved material findings, and a first-period delivery roughly 3.7× the pro-rata ex-ante expectation raise moderate over-crediting and data-quality concerns.
Red Flags
- First monitoring-period removals (143,190 tCO₂e) are approximately 372% of the pro-rata ex-ante expectation (~38,513 tCO₂e/year), suggesting either a very conservative ex-ante estimate or potential over-crediting in the initial period
- 17 material findings in the monitoring report (including calculation errors in pulpwood conversion, incorrect species codes in HWP calculations, and a contradictory GHG Plan statement on STS115BA prescription) indicate data-quality fragility, even though all were resolved before issuance
- FPIC was not conducted and no grievance mechanism is documented, despite safeguards being mentioned in the project documents
Credit Vintages
| Issued | Retired | Available | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 106,683 | 0 | 106,683 | |
| 2023 | 36,507 | 0 | 36,507 | |
| Total | 143,190 | 0 | 143,190 |
Risk Indicators
VVB-confirmed combined test
18% buffer pool, no reversals
30% quantified deduction
Project-specific, modeled, reassessment timing unstated
Mentioned but FPIC absent, no grievance mechanism
CORSIA and CCP status not stated
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