Four Bordet

Integrity

The verification report (2026-01-28) indicates additionality was confirmed by the VVB using an investment test, which supports additionality. However, the extracted record does not state the baseline method or when it was last reassessed, and leakage is marked as not addressed with no leakage deduction captured. The same verification report includes many corrective actions related to emission factors, supplier distances, moisture content, gas use, production records, and LCA revisions, which weakens confidence in the robustness of quantified removals.

Transparency

The verification report (2026-01-28) provides a named VVB (EnergyLink Services Pty Ltd) and specifies a monitoring period of 2024-05-01 to 2025-04-30. But the extracted record does not include total removals claimed or verified, preventing a basic reconciliation of issuance quantities. Low extraction confidence further suggests that some MRV details may be missing or unreliable in the extracted record.

Claim Safety

Because the extracted record lacks the verified removals total and does not state the baseline method or leakage treatment, there is elevated risk that credited removals could be overstated. The verification report (2026-01-28) lists corrective actions including revising the LCA to include end-use and aligning LCA/Bilan Carbon with the validation period, which directly affects claim defensibility. CORSIA eligibility and CCP status are not stated in the extracted record, so eligibility-based claims cannot be safely inferred.

Documentation

Although the extracted record indicates 9 documents were used, the evidence document list is not specific (listed as “unknown”), limiting auditability of what was actually reviewed. Minimum extraction confidence is low, indicating at least one key document was poorly readable, which reduces confidence that all critical parameters were captured. The verification report (2026-01-28) also includes numerous corrective actions, suggesting documentation and data packages were incomplete or inconsistent at the time of assessment.

Overall

Overall scoring is pulled down by missing core accounting details (baseline approach, leakage treatment, and verified removals) and by extensive corrective actions in the verification report (2026-01-28). The contradiction on the crediting period (2023-05-01 to 2024-04-30 vs 2021-11-01 to 2023-04-30) indicates timeline inconsistency; I privilege the 2023-05-01 to 2024-04-30 period because it appears as the project’s stated crediting period in the merged record and aligns more plausibly with the later monitoring period (2024-05-01 to 2025-04-30), but the discrepancy still reduces confidence and therefore scores. Note: if documentation were scored below 3.0, transparency would be capped post-scoring; if integrity were below 4.0, overall would be capped at 6.0 post-scoring.