CARBONO NEGOCIOS AGROFORESTALES
#5of 80 in ARR (afforestation)#26of 124 in Colombia#24of 99 in CerCarbono (CC)
Audit Analysis
The Carbono Negocios Agroforestales project is a Colombian agroforestry carbon project with a verified investment-test additionality and a 15% buffer pool, but it carries unresolved legal issues (embargoes on three properties, pending precautionary measures) and a notable absence of FPIC and safeguards documentation. The project delivered roughly 47% of its pro-rata ex-ante expectation for the elapsed monitoring period, indicating conservative crediting, yet multiple contradictions across documents and a thin leakage justification limit confidence in the overall data quality.
Red Flags
- Seven material findings in the 2024 verification report, including a pending Severity A Finding (SAF) on precautionary legal measures and a Severity A (SA) finding on embargoes affecting properties El Llano, Santa Elena, and Yocasta
- FPIC was not conducted and safeguards are not mentioned in the most recent verification report, despite this being a land-use project in Colombia
- Eight contradictions across documents, including conflicting ERR figures (67,552 vs 79,473) and conflicting additionality test types (investment vs combined)
- Leakage deduction of 0% justified only as 'deemed negligible' without quantified analysis, which is thin for an agroforestry project where displaced biomass or land-use change is plausible
Credit Vintages
| Issued | Retired | Available | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 38 | 0 | 38 | |
| 2012 | 178 | 0 | 178 | |
| 2013 | 441 | 0 | 441 | |
| 2014 | 608 | 0 | 608 | |
| 2015 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2016 | 119 | 0 | 119 | |
| 2017 | 135 | 0 | 135 | |
| 2018 | 511 | 0 | 511 | |
| 2019 | 3,078 | 0 | 3,078 | |
| 2020 | 3,085 | 0 | 3,085 | |
| 2021 | 3,078 | 0 | 3,078 | |
| 2022 | 1,915 | 0 | 1,915 | |
| Total | 13,186 | 0 | 13,186 |
Risk Indicators
VVB-verified investment test
15% buffer, no reversals, but legal encumbrances
0% deduction, 'deemed negligible' only
Project-specific, reassessed 2023
No FPIC, no safeguards, no grievance mechanism
CORSIA and CCP status not stated
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