BRASCARBON Methane Recovery Project BCA-BRA-08, Brazil.

Audit Analysis

The BRASCARBON methane recovery project has VVB-confirmed additionality and a functioning monitoring system, but is undermined by a project-specific modeled baseline, a 0% leakage deduction in a methane-capture context, and a substantial list of material findings and corrective actions (including farm withdrawals, parameter inconsistencies, and a missing baseline validity assessment). The project delivered roughly 89% of its pro-rata annual expectation, which is within a reasonable range but the data-quality issues raise moderate over-crediting risk.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Thirteen corrective actions required, including withdrawal of five farms from the project boundary, MCFj parameter inconsistency (78% vs 79%), and animal-count discrepancies between the PDD and calculation file
• ⚠Missing baseline validity assessment per Methodological Tool v03.0.1 (flagged as CAR 5 in the verification report)
• ⚠Non-compliance with methodology paragraph 26 regarding minimum emissions (CAR 6)
• ⚠0% leakage deduction in a methane-capture project where fugitive emissions during collection and transport are a plausible pathway
• ⚠Total verified ERR for the 2020 monitoring period is not stated in the extracted record, limiting independent verification of delivery

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