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ScoredCSIGlobal Artisan C-SinkColombiaRegistry: RegisteredGeneral Methodologyv2.1

Cafetierros

Developer: Cotierra AG

GCSP-1057 ↗

#17of 173 in Biochar#39of 182 in Colombia#8of 118 in Global C-Sink (CSI)

Assessment

CarbonMeld document-based assessment

01020304 Overall 5.4 / 10
Integrity 🔒 Transparency 🔒 Claim Safety 🔒 Documentation 🔒
Dimension scores are locked — the faint arcs are empty tracks, not zero scores.

Scale 0–10 · method weights: integrity 35% · transparency 25% · claim safety 25% · documentation 15%.

Scored2026-09-26high confidence

evidence:11/11registry documents analyzed · 5red flags

Generated by CarbonMeld Analysis Pipeline · Methodology · Editorial Policy · About the System
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Analysis

The Cafetierros biochar project in Colombia has a VVB-verified investment additionality test and documented feedstock sustainability, but is undermined by multiple contradictions between the PDD, validation report, and verification report—particularly on permanence (100 vs 1,000 years), crediting period length, and leakage treatment. The project delivered only ~2% of the pro-rata ex-ante expectation for the elapsed monitoring period, which is conservative for claim safety but raises questions about the validity of the original estimate. Several material findings (duplicate surveys, producer-list mismatches, missing kiln approval) were identified and resolved, but the absence of a buffer pool for this soil-carbon project and the project-specific baseline with no stated reassessment cadence leave integrity gaps.

Red Flags

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Findings

Risk Indicators

Additionality

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Permanence

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Leakage

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Baseline

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Safeguards

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Double-claim

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Evidence

Eligibility & market

What can you claim with this credit?

Four checks buyers ask about, from the registry and the Integrity Council (ICVCM).

  • Airlines (CORSIA)

    Not published

    This registry does not publish CORSIA eligibility per project.

  • Integrity label (ICVCM CCP)

    No ICVCM information

    No CCP label and no ICVCM decision found for this project's methodology.

  • Removal or reduction

    Carbon removal

    Takes CO₂ out of the atmosphere — the only type that can neutralise residual emissions in an SBTi net-zero claim.

    Source: project standard

  • Paris Agreement (Article 6)

    Not published

    This registry does not publish Article 6 authorizations.

Information only, from public sources. Claim rules (CORSIA, SBTi, EU rules on green claims) change: check them before making a public claim. Since 27 September 2026, EU consumer rules do not allow “climate neutral” product claims based on offsets.

Credit Vintages

IssuedRetiredAvailable
2024
26.9985.23921.759
2025
769.0735.045764.028
2026
1,451.884233.0421,218.842
2027
000
2028
000
Total2,247.955243.3262,004.629

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Analysis ProvenanceGeneral Methodologyv2.1
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