Boomitra Carbon Farming South of the Vindhyas

Audit Analysis

A small-scale (35 farmers, ~28 ha) soil-carbon farming project in India with VVB-confirmed additionality and a 13% buffer pool, but significant concerns around MRV robustness (outstanding RothC and AI-model validation), a 0% leakage deduction, and a major discrepancy between the PDD's 8 million tCO₂e claim and the validation report's ~1.79 million tCO₂e. No verified ERR figure was found in the available documents, and extraction confidence was rated low.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠The PDD (2022) claims 8,000,000 tCO₂e over the crediting period while the validation report (2025) supports only 1,785,980 tCO₂e — a 77% reduction that is not explained in the extracted record.
• ⚠Five Forward Action Requests remain open at validation, including the absence of a RothC model validation report and the need to demonstrate the validity of a remote-sensing AI model used in the MRV system.
• ⚠No verified ERR figure (total_err_verified) was found in any available document, making it impossible to confirm actual delivery against the claimed estimate.
• ⚠Leakage deduction is 0% with a justification labelled 'quantified' but no supporting quantification is visible in the extracted record; for a soil-carbon project across 8 Indian states, displaced-practice leakage is a plausible risk.
• ⚠min_extraction_confidence is rated 'low', indicating at least one key document was poorly readable, which undermines confidence in the completeness of the evidence base.

Credit Vintages

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