Compost Or Ltd

Audit Analysis

Compost Or is an ICR-standard waste composting avoidance project in Israel with a verified additionality assessment and no reported reversals, but it is undermined by a 0% buffer pool, contradictory leakage justifications across documents, a project-specific baseline, and a substantial list of material findings and corrective actions (16 CLs/CARs and 19 corrective actions) that raise concerns about the robustness of the verification. Multiple ERR figures conflict between the verification report, validation report, and appendix, limiting confidence in the claimed credit volume.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Ex-ante lifetime ERR differs by nearly 2× between the verification report (2,265,417) and the validation report (4,336,010), creating uncertainty about the true baseline credit volume
• ⚠Leakage justification is contradictory: the PDD states leakage was 'quantified' while the validation report records it as 'deemed negligible' with a 0% deduction
• ⚠Buffer pool is 0% for an avoidance project, leaving no permanence buffer against potential reversal
• ⚠16 material findings (CLs and CARs) include missing waste-supplier agreements, missing stakeholder-consultation evidence, methane misclassified as a minor source, and inconsistent methodology references (AMS-III.F vs AMS-III.D)
• ⚠FPIC was not conducted despite the project's community-facing waste-collection operations

Credit Vintages