Earthcare

Audit Analysis

Earthcare's biochar project at Riverview Farms demonstrates solid core carbon integrity with a VVB-verified investment additionality test and no reversal events, as biochar applied to soil offers inherently long-term carbon storage. However, the project lacks any documented leakage treatment, relies on a project-specific baseline with no reassessment data, and the verification report identified five workplace-safety material findings requiring corrective action. Several key parameters (FNRB, usage rates, crediting period, CORSIA/CCP status) are absent from the extracted record, limiting the depth of assurance.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠No leakage deduction or justification documented in any available record — a gap for a project where displaced soil carbon or alternative land use could generate leakage
• ⚠Five material findings and five corrective actions in the verification report (2024-11-14) relating to workplace safety: missing chain guards, unlabeled hot surfaces, absent floor tape, and incomplete bilingual signage
• ⚠Additionality test type is described as 'investment' in the verification report but 'combined' in the PDD — an unresolved discrepancy between the two documents
• ⚠Crediting period is not stated in any available document, preventing a pro-rata comparison of claimed versus verified emissions reductions

Credit Vintages Exhausted