Barka Landfill Gas Recovery Project

Audit Analysis

The Barka Landfill Gas Recovery Project has a VVB-confirmed additionality assessment and a measured project-specific baseline, but the verification report flags four material findings including prolonged flare shutdown and absence of the gas generator, indicating that actual emission reductions were substantially below ex-ante expectations. Multiple contradictions across the PDD, monitoring report, and verification reports — particularly on FPIC, grievance mechanism, benefit sharing, and the ERR figure — undermine confidence in the data record. The absence of a stated buffer pool, unaddressed reversal risk, and missing FNRB/usage-rate data leave meaningful gaps in the permanence and claim-safety picture.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Verification report material finding: flare device shut off intermittently (Mar–Oct 2024) and completely (May–Jun 2024), and gas generator never installed, meaning zero electricity generation during the monitoring period
• ⚠Verification report states actual emission reductions were substantially lower than ex-ante estimates due to limited cell closure and lack of generator
• ⚠ERR discrepancy: PDD (Jul 2024) reports 28,670 tCO₂e while the monitoring report (Oct 2025) and later verification report (Dec 2025) report 62,349 tCO₂e — the basis for the difference is not explained in the extracted record
• ⚠No buffer pool percentage stated and reversal events explicitly not addressed in the verification report
• ⚠Three corrective action requests (CARs) issued by the VVB, including incomplete stakeholder engagement documentation and missing equipment specifications

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