Carbon In Flavor and Arome Forests (C-BOSAR)

Audit Analysis

C-BOSAR is a registered VCS soil-carbon project in Colombia with VVB-confirmed additionality and a 16% buffer pool, but it carries notable integrity concerns: a project-specific baseline, a 0% leakage deduction deemed negligible for a soil-carbon system, and six corrective actions raised during validation. No monitoring or verification reports were available, and eight contradictions across documents weaken confidence in the data record.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠0% leakage deduction justified as 'deemed negligible' for a soil-carbon AFOLU project where displacement and land-use change are plausible
• ⚠Six corrective actions (CARs) required during validation, including missing tenure documentation, unverified common-practice analysis for cocoa/coffee, and absent QA/QC procedures in the monitoring plan
• ⚠No verification or monitoring reports found in the extracted record; the project has no demonstrated track record of actual emissions reductions
• ⚠50-year crediting period (2022–2072) for a soil-carbon project is aggressive and amplifies non-permanence risk over time
• ⚠Eight contradictions between the validation report, PDD, and appendix on key fields including FPIC, grievance mechanism, safeguards, and leakage justification

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.