Carabina II Wind Farm

Audit Analysis

Carabina II is a CDM wind project in Mexico with a jurisdictional baseline and VVB-confirmed additionality, but the available record contains only a validation report with seven material findings and seven required corrective actions. No monitoring or verification reports are present, making it impossible to assess actual delivery against the 498,066 tCO₂e claimed over the 2015–2021 crediting period. The project's fundamental design (avoidance-type wind, jurisdictional baseline, negligible leakage) is sound, but the documentation gap and validation-stage quality issues limit confidence.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Seven material findings in the validation report, including incorrect emission-reduction calculations, a common-practice analysis that did not follow the CDM additionality tool, and emission factors not fixed ex-ante in the PDD
• ⚠No monitoring or verification reports are available in the extracted record, so the 498,066 tCO₂e claimed over the 7-year crediting period cannot be cross-checked against verified figures
• ⚠Letter of Approval from Mexico's DNA and the SEMARNAT Environmental Impact Assessment were initially missing or pending at validation, raising questions about host-country regulatory compliance at project inception

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.