Fjallssel

Audit Analysis

The Fjallssel forest carbon project in Iceland is registered under the Icelandic Forest Carbon Code with iCert as the verification body, but the available record consists solely of a project design document with no monitoring reports, verification reports, or quantified baseline methodology. Critical integrity elements — additionality testing, baseline method, permanence mechanisms, and leakage treatment — are entirely absent from the extracted data, making it impossible to confirm the robustness of the 16,813 claimed removal units.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠No additionality test type or VVB confirmation found in the available PDD; for a sequestration project this is a fundamental gap
• ⚠No baseline methodology or reassessment date stated; the 16,813 claimed ERR cannot be traced to a defined counterfactual
• ⚠Permanence risk for a sequestration project is addressed only by a general statement about regeneration; no buffer pool, no quantified reversal mechanism, and no monitoring data to confirm carbon stocks are stable
• ⚠Leakage is entirely unaddressed in the available documents despite being a standard requirement for forest projects
• ⚠No monitoring reports or verification reports are available; the 16,813 claimed ERR has no verified counterpart
• ⚠Leakage not addressed in project documentation
• ⚠Buffer pool size not disclosed in available documents

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