Daegu Bangcheon-Ri Landfill Gas CDM Project

Audit Analysis

The Daegu Bangcheon-Ri Landfill Gas CDM project is a heat-generation facility recovering landfill gas in South Korea, validated by KSA in 2021. The validation report identified nine material findings spanning calculation errors, omitted data, and unsupported parameters, all of which required corrective action before registration. While the monitoring plan is technically detailed, significant gaps in additionality documentation, safeguards, and the contradictory leakage treatment limit confidence in the project's environmental integrity.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Nine material findings in the validation report, including an incorrect GWP value, an unsupported LFG capture efficiency (63.46% vs. corrected 89.1%), omitted power plants in the grid emission factor calculation, and multiple omitted consumption periods — indicating a pattern of calculation and data-quality errors in the PDD.
• ⚠Additionality test type and VVB verification of additionality are not stated in the extracted record, while LFG capture is legally required in South Korea, raising the question of whether the project's core activity is truly additional.
• ⚠Leakage justification is contradictory: the validation report (May 2021) states leakage is 'deemed negligible' with a 0% deduction, while an appendix (April 2021) describes it as 'quantified' — the two documents disagree on the treatment.
• ⚠Safeguards documentation is essentially absent: no FPIC record, no grievance mechanism, no benefit-sharing description, and stakeholder comments are recorded as 'Not received.'
• ⚠Total ERR claimed and total ERR verified are identical (1,632,047 tCO₂e), and no monitoring period is stated, making it impossible to verify whether the 'verified' figure reflects an independent measurement or is simply a copy of the ex-ante estimate.
• ⚠Gas capture legally mandated — additionality in doubt

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