Cavadacavᵾ Coreivᵾ Jocᵾ Bᵾcᵾro Rẽ, N̄ᵾjẽ N̄ecᵾvã Aiye Baquepe

Audit Analysis

A Colombian REDD+ project under the CerCarbono registry with a sound design (jurisdictional baseline, combined additionality test confirmed by the VVB, 9.5% buffer pool, no reversal events), but undermined by 10 Significant Audit Concerns, 30+ corrective actions, unresolved data contradictions across documents, and a 0% leakage deduction that was originally absent from the PDD. The project over-delivered relative to its ex-ante estimate on a pro-rata basis, which is a positive signal, but the volume of material findings and overlap issues with other registered projects create meaningful data-reliability risk.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠10 Significant Audit Concerns (SAC) identified by the VVB, including errors in project area, baseline emissions, projected emissions, and missing uncertainty estimation
• ⚠Overlap with at least two other registered projects (AZIRPA and Verra VCS ID 3215, plus Cercarbono ID 67) identified during certification, resolved by area exclusion
• ⚠Leakage deduction of 0% with a 'deemed negligible' justification, yet the PDD originally contained no leakage analysis at all (corrective action CAR 14)
• ⚠Contradictory ex-ante lifetime ERR figures in two PDD versions (4,096,731 vs 6,645,107 tCO2e), a 39% discrepancy
• ⚠Buffer pool percentage differs between the PDD (11%) and the monitoring report (9.5%), with no documented explanation for the change

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