CECEP Gansu Yumen Changma Daba North Wind Farm Project.
#50of 770 in Renewable energy#23of 204 in China#65of 629 in Verra (VCS)#34of 383 in ACM0002
Audit Analysis
A registered VCS wind energy avoidance project with a VVB-confirmed investment additionality test and a jurisdictional baseline, delivering 88,692 tCO2e in the 2021–2022 monitoring period. The project is free of material findings and corrective actions, but the most recent verification report contains internal contradictions on safeguards, FPIC, and grievance mechanisms, and the leakage justification is marked as not addressed. Overall a solid avoidance project with moderate documentation and transparency gaps.
Red Flags
- The 2024 verification report contains internal contradictions: FPIC, grievance mechanism, benefit sharing, and safeguards are simultaneously recorded as both present and absent within the same document, making the safeguards status unreliable.
- Leakage justification is recorded as 'not addressed' in the most recent verification report (2024), despite a 0% deduction being applied; the earlier 2022 report described it as 'quantified', creating uncertainty about the basis for the zero deduction.
- Baseline method is inconsistent across documents: the 2012 validation report describes a project-specific baseline while the 2024 monitoring report references a jurisdictional baseline, and no reassessment date is recorded.
Credit Vintages
| Issued | Retired | Available | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 196,978 | 196,978 | 0 | |
| 2019 | 111,835 | 16,730 | 95,105 | |
| 2020 | 99,379 | 38,857 | 60,522 | |
| 2021 | 97,238 | 97,238 | 0 | |
| Total | 505,430 | 349,803 | 155,627 |
Risk Indicators
VVB-confirmed investment test
Avoidance project, no reversal risk
0% deduction, justification not addressed in latest VR
Jurisdictional per monitoring, project-specific per validati
Internal contradictions in 2024 VR; status unconfirmed
CORSIA not eligible; CCP status not stated
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