Dekang AWMS GHG Mitigation Project in Sichuan Province

Audit Analysis

The Dekang AWMS project is a registered VCS anaerobic wastewater treatment project (ACM0010) with a VVB-confirmed investment additionality test and verified emissions reductions of 685,561 tCO₂e over its full crediting period. However, significant gaps exist in permanence risk documentation, leakage quantification, and social safeguards, compounded by multiple contradictions between the verification report and monitoring report on FPIC, grievance mechanisms, and benefit-sharing provisions.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Permanence risk analysis section is listed in the verification report table of contents but its content was not extractable; reversal events are marked as not addressed and no buffer pool percentage is stated in the available record
• ⚠Leakage is described as 'quantified' in the verification report but the actual deduction percentage is not stated in any extracted document
• ⚠The more recent verification report (September 2022) states FPIC was not conducted, no grievance mechanism exists, and no benefit-sharing arrangement is described — directly contradicting the earlier verification report (August 2022) and the monitoring report (July 2022)
• ⚠Project boundary definition was initially incorrect and had to be corrected via CAR 05, indicating a material error in the project design documentation

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.