Applied Carbon – Terra

Audit Analysis

Applied Carbon Terra is a US biochar removal project verified by 350Solutions under the Puro.earth standard. The project benefits from inherently strong permanence (biochar applied to soil with customer attestations) and a VVB-confirmed investment additionality test, but is undermined by four material findings requiring corrective action, the absence of a stated buffer pool or leakage treatment, and a project-specific baseline with no documented reassessment.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Four material findings in the December 2025 verification report (missing waste-classification data for new suppliers, missing public-funding disclosure, missing calibration certificates, missing lab results for three batches) each carry a required corrective action for the next reporting period
• ⚠No buffer pool percentage is stated in any available document for a removal credit, leaving permanence risk unquantified
• ⚠Leakage deduction and justification are entirely absent from the extracted record despite the project type (biochar production from agricultural waste) presenting plausible leakage pathways
• ⚠ERR figures differ between the June 2025 and December 2025 verification reports (847.31 vs 768.132 tCO₂e), a ~9% discrepancy that, while potentially attributable to different monitoring windows, signals data-management inconsistency

Credit Vintages Exhausted