Cocoa Biochar Carboneers

Audit Analysis

Cocoa Biochar Carboneers is a very new carbon-removal project (crediting period began November 2025) with a combined additionality test, low reversal risk, and documented safeguards, but it lacks a named independent verifier, a buffer pool, and any verified emissions-removal data. The 0% leakage deduction rests on a thin 'deemed negligible' justification, and the project-specific baseline has no recorded reassessment. Overall, the project shows a reasonable design foundation but insufficient independent verification to support high confidence in its claims.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠No independent verification body (VVB) is named in any available document, leaving additionality and all other claims unverified by a third party.
• ⚠Leakage deduction is 0% with only a 'deemed negligible' justification and no quantified assessment, which is thin for a biochar project where feedstock sourcing and end-use displacement could generate leakage.
• ⚠No buffer pool percentage is stated for a 200-year permanence claim, leaving no explicit financial backstop against potential reversal.
• ⚠Usage monitoring relies entirely on self-reporting with no independent verification mechanism identified.

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