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UCRKarnataka India.ACM0006

Carbon Credit Generation Project by NSL Sugars Ltd. Aland Unit Karnataka, India

UCR-472 ↗

#353of 421 in Universal Carbon Registry (UCR)#45of 53 in ACM0006

2.9/ 10
Integrity
3.5
Transparency
1.5
Claim Safety
4.0
Documentation
2.0

Audit Analysis

This UCR-registered biomass energy project (ACM0006) by NSL Sugars in Karnataka claims 83,955 tCO₂e over a 12-year crediting period, but the available documentation is extremely limited — only a PDD and one unidentified document were extracted with low confidence. No additionality test, VVB verification, verified ERR, or baseline reassessment date could be found, leaving the core integrity claims unverified. The project's energy-sector nature makes the 0% leakage deduction plausible, but the overall evidentiary base is too thin to support a high-confidence assessment.

Red Flags

  • No additionality test type or VVB verification found in any available document — a fundamental requirement for any carbon credit project is absent from the record
  • No verified ERR figure available; the 83,955 tCO₂e claim cannot be independently confirmed against monitoring data
  • No VVB (Validation/Verification Body) identified in the extracted record, raising questions about who validated or verified the project
  • Only two documents were used for extraction, one labelled 'unknown', and the minimum extraction confidence is rated low, meaning key data may have been missed or misread
  • Project-specific baseline with no reassessment date stated for a project running since 2013

Credit Vintages

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Risk Indicators

Additionality

No additionality test or VVB verification found

Permanence

No buffer pool; no reversal events reported but not confirme

Leakage

0% deemed negligible — plausible for energy but thin justifi

Baseline

Project-specific baseline; no reassessment date stated

Safeguards

Safeguards and benefit sharing mentioned; no FPIC or grievan

Double-claim

CORSIA and CCP status both not stated in available documents

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Analysis ProvenanceScored2026-08-19ACM0006

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