AWMS Methane Recovery Project BR07-S-31, Mato Grosso do Sul, Parana, Rio Grande do Sul, and Santa Catarina, Brazil

Audit Analysis

A CDM landfill methane recovery project across four Brazilian states with a VVB-confirmed combined additionality test and no material findings, but limited by a project-specific baseline, contradictory leakage treatment between documents, and a sparse documentation set that omits the PDD and any verification report. The absence of verified ERR figures, FNRB details, and safeguards documentation leaves meaningful evidence gaps across all four scoring dimensions.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Leakage treatment is contradictory: the monitoring report (Mar 2011) records leakage as not addressed, while the validation report (Aug 2011) deems it negligible — no quantified deduction or explicit justification is provided in either document.
• ⚠Total ERR figures differ between the two monitoring reports (12,332 in the 2011 report vs 14,423 in the 2009 report), a ~14% discrepancy with no documented explanation for the change.
• ⚠No safeguards, FPIC, or grievance mechanism information is found in any available document for a project operating across four Brazilian states.
• ⚠Verified ERR figure is not present in the extracted record, preventing an independent cross-check of claimed reductions.

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