Sustainable Agriculture Spain Vintage 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 Documentazione completa General Methodology v2.0

Cultiva Carbono - Agricola Madroñeros Dos SLU

CM-e57688 ↗

3.0 / 10

Integrity

2.6

Transparency

3.2

Claim Safety

2.8

Documentation

4.1

Score Breakdown

Integrity

missing Baseline, additionality, leakage, and permanence provisions (e.g., buffer pool/reversal handling) are not stated in the extracted record from the validation and monitoring reports.

inferred The monitoring report indicates no material findings and no corrective actions, but this does not substitute for missing core accounting parameters.

Transparency

missing The extracted record lacks key MRV transparency items: monitoring period and both claimed and verified removals are not stated.

verified A named VVB (European Quality Assurance Spain, S.L. (EQA)) is identified in the extracted record.

Claim Safety

missing Over-crediting risk is elevated because the extracted record does not state the baseline method, leakage treatment, or any claimed/verified removals.

inferred CORSIA eligibility and CCP status are not stated in the extracted record, increasing uncertainty around downstream claim constraints.

Documentation

verified Two document types are present (validation report and monitoring report) and extraction confidence is medium.

missing Document dates and several core fields (crediting period, monitoring period, quantified results) are not stated in the extracted record, limiting auditability.

Detailed Analysis

Integrity

The extracted record does not state the baseline method or when the baseline was last reassessed, which weakens confidence that credited soil carbon outcomes are benchmarked against a defensible counterfactual (validation report; monitoring report). Additionality is also not evidenced in the extracted record: neither the type of additionality test nor confirmation by the VVB is stated (validation report). Leakage is not addressed in the extracted record (no leakage deduction and no justification stated), and permanence provisions are unclear because buffer pool and reversal-event information are not stated (monitoring report).

Transparency

Transparency is limited because the extracted record does not include a monitoring period, nor does it provide claimed or verified emission reductions/removals (monitoring report). While the VVB is named as European Quality Assurance Spain, S.L. (EQA), the absence of quantified MRV outputs prevents cross-checking performance against issuance (validation report; monitoring report). Registry-related completeness is also constrained because key eligibility/status fields are not stated in the extracted record.

Claim Safety

Claim safety is weak because the extracted record lacks the core ingredients needed to judge over-crediting risk: baseline approach, leakage treatment, and any claimed versus verified removals are not stated (validation report; monitoring report). In addition, CORSIA eligibility and CCP status are not stated in the extracted record, so buyers cannot easily determine whether additional claim restrictions or reputational risks apply. The absence of usage/monitoring method details in the extracted record further limits confidence in how soil carbon outcomes are tracked over time.

Documentation

Documentation is partial: the extracted record includes a validation report and a monitoring report, and extraction confidence is medium. However, document dates are not stated, and many key fields (crediting period, monitoring period, quantified results) are not found in the extracted record, reducing traceability and the ability to independently reproduce calculations. The monitoring report indicates no material findings and no corrective actions required, which is positive but does not resolve the missing core parameters.

Overall

Overall quality is constrained primarily by evidence gaps across baseline, additionality, leakage, permanence provisions, and quantified results, all of which are not stated in the extracted record. One explicit contradiction exists on safeguards: the monitoring report indicates safeguards are mentioned, while the validation report indicates they are not. I privilege the validation report for this point because it is the primary document for establishing ex-ante safeguards commitments; the contradiction reduces confidence in social/environmental safeguard documentation and slightly lowers transparency/documentation scoring.

Audit Analysis

Based on the extracted record, core carbon-accounting elements (baseline approach, additionality demonstration, leakage treatment, monitoring period, and verified removals) are not stated in the available documents. While a VVB is identified and no material findings or corrective actions are reported, the lack of quantified MRV outputs and key methodological parameters creates a high risk of over-crediting and weak claim defensibility.

Project Description

El Valenciano is a farm owned by Agrícola Madroñeros Dos S.L.U and located between the municipalities of Carmona and Marchena in Seville, Spain. It is an innovative and sustainable farm, with numerous tests conducted and national and European projects under development. It has an end-to-end program for genetics improvement and for the optimisation of resources through the implementation of new precision agriculture technologies. This carbon removal project applies across 137,71 ha of high-density olive groves of Arbequina variety, with a total of 203,920 olive trees. The farm is managed with a strong commitment to low carbon footprint pesticides, which are provided by the "CO2 Redux" brand of BALAM Agriculture. The farm has been managed in a sustainable fashion for more than 5 years, following mitigation practices such as the incorporation of residues in the soil and the optimisation of nutrition and crop protection inputs. The implementation in 2023 of cover crops in the rows of the plantation will contribute to the increase in CO2 sequestration, the retention of key resources such as water, as well as an increase in soil health and biodiversity improvements. Regarding biodiversity, El Valenciano includes spaces dedicated to the conservation and increase of different species of fauna and flora, such as insect hotels, floating islands, reptile refuge, multifunctional margins, agroforestry areas, an organic garden and biodiversity towers. El Valenciano is therefore a unique productive and sustainable system governed by the philosophy of the circular economy, being at the same time a large carbon sink.

Red Flags

No baseline method or baseline reassessment timing found in the extracted record.
No additionality test type or confirmation by the VVB found in the extracted record.
No leakage deduction or leakage justification found in the extracted record.
No claimed or verified emission reductions/removals and no monitoring period found in the extracted record.

Credit Vintages

Nessuna emissione registrata sul registro.

Il marketplace dichiara i vintage: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 (non verificato).

Cosa migliorerebbe questo punteggio

Publish or extract the baseline approach, additionality test (and explicit VVB confirmation), leakage assessment (with any deduction), and permanence provisions (buffer pool and reversal management) from the validation/monitoring documentation.
Provide dated monitoring periods and quantified results (claimed and VVB-verified removals), plus a clear MRV/soil sampling and verification protocol summary to enable independent scrutiny.

Questi suggerimenti indicano quali prove pubbliche aggiuntive potrebbero migliorare il livello di confidenza di questa valutazione. Non garantiscono un punteggio futuro più alto.