Carbono Paja Perdida

Audit Analysis

Carbono Paja Perdida is a Colombian plantation forestry project (Gmelina arborea and Tectona grandis) under the CerCarbono standard with a 20-year crediting period. Additionality was confirmed by the VVB via a combined test and a 15% buffer pool addresses non-permanence, but the project-specific baseline, absence of FPIC and grievance mechanisms, and a 0% leakage deduction deemed negligible without robust quantification limit integrity. Multiple material findings (all resolved) and contradictions in ERR figures across documents introduce moderate data-reliability concerns.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠No FPIC conducted and no grievance mechanism in place, despite the project involving community land in Colombia
• ⚠Leakage deduction of 0% justified only as 'deemed negligible' without a quantified analysis, which is weak for a multi-farm plantation project
• ⚠Contradiction in verified ERR: 19,025 tCO2e in the issuance document vs 22,383 tCO2e in the verification report — a 15% gap that is not explained
• ⚠Project-specific baseline with no documented reassessment date; baseline robustness depends entirely on the initial project design
• ⚠DoP was submitted as a draft with editing errors, and key legal documents (land tenure certificates, ICA plantation registration) were missing at initial submission

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