Ecoparque Candeias Landfill Gas Project

Audit Analysis

The Ecoparque Candeias LFG project has VVB-verified additionality and no reversal events, but is undermined by 13 corrective action requests, a 2.5× grid emission factor discrepancy between documents, a 0% leakage deduction with contradictory justifications, and the absence of a buffer pool. The project-specific baseline and the reliance on one year of monitoring to support a three-year crediting period introduce moderate over-crediting risk. Overall, the project is functional but carries notable data-quality and conservatism gaps.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Grid emission factor differs by 2.5× between the verification report (0.1149 tCO₂/MWh) and the PDD appendix (0.2907 tCO₂/MWh), which could materially inflate or deflate the credit quantity depending on which value is correct.
• ⚠13 Corrective Action Requests and 4 Forward Action Requests were raised during verification, covering calibration delays, incorrect SDG values, wrong GWP presentation, and non-conforming monitoring-period dates — indicating the initial monitoring report had widespread data-quality problems.
• ⚠No buffer pool is applied to the project, leaving the full 1,341,274 tCO₂e exposed to any future reversal or operational disruption over the three-year crediting period.
• ⚠Leakage deduction is 0% but the justification is contradictory: the verification report states it was 'quantified' while the monitoring report says it was 'deemed negligible' — the basis for the zero deduction is unclear.
• ⚠FPIC was not conducted, and safeguards reporting was found non-conformant with PDD requirements, raising Indigenous and community rights concerns for a landfill project in Brazil.

Credit Vintages