Bussme-01-Munka-Ljungby

Audit Analysis

Bussme's biochar project in Sweden has a verified investment-test additionality and a 2.5% buffer pool, but the 2.5% buffer is thin for a 100-year permanence claim, leakage is entirely unaddressed, and the verification report flagged a 7% over-crediting error in CORCs that was subsequently corrected. The project is CCP-eligible and uses a reputable VVB (DNV), but several key MRV parameters (FNRB, usage monitoring, grid emission factor) are absent from the extracted record, and a contradiction between a 100-year and a 1,000-year permanence claim introduces uncertainty about the true permanence basis.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Verification report (2025-03-03) identified a 7% over-crediting error in CORCs due to a mismatch between reported production and shipped volumes at the Svedala site; corrective action was taken but the initial error signals a monitoring weakness.
• ⚠Leakage is neither quantified nor justified in any available document, which is a gap for a biochar project where displaced soil carbon or feedstock substitution effects are plausible.
• ⚠Baseline is project-specific rather than jurisdictional or standardised, and no baseline reassessment date is recorded.

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