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Re-assessment pendingVCSEnergy industries (renewable/non-renewable sources); Waste handling and disposalChinaRegistry: RegisteredAMS-III.D

Gansu Gaotai Biogas Recovery and Utilization Project

Developer: Gansu Founder Energy Conservation Sci&Tech Service Co., Ltd

VCS-2537 ↗

#392of 525 in Biogas#2593of 3065 in China#1472of 1608 in Verra (VCS)#179of 200 in AMS-III.D

Score from methodology v2.1 (analysis of 2 Sep 2026). Re-assessment under v2.2 pending.

Assessment

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01020304 Overall 4.2 / 10 Dimension scores are locked — the faint arcs are empty tracks, not zero scores.

Scale 0–10 · method weights: integrity 35% · transparency 25% · claim safety 25% · documentation 15%.

Re-assessment pending · v2.1

Analysis

The Gansu Gaotai biogas project is a registered VCS project with VVB-confirmed additionality and appropriate safeguards, but it carries a heavy burden of nine material findings and ten corrective actions that raise serious concerns about methodological rigour and documentation quality. The 0% leakage deduction is supported by contradictory justifications across verification reports, and four inter-document contradictions (including a 10× discrepancy in the claimed ERR figure between the PDD and the verification report) undermine confidence in the data. The project delivered only about 56% of its pro-rata ex-ante expectation for the elapsed monitoring period, which is conservative but may signal an overestimated baseline.

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On this page: the analysis of 2 Sep 2026, marked “Re-assessment pending”. Per-dimension scores, risk indicators, 4 red flags, score factors, detailed analysis, and 15 registry documents (15 analyzed).

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Four checks buyers ask about, from the registry and the Integrity Council (ICVCM).

  • Airlines (CORSIA)

    Pilot phase only (2021–2023)

    Eligible only for the pilot phase: not usable for the current 2024–2026 phase.

    Source: registry label

  • Integrity label (ICVCM CCP)

    No ICVCM information

    No CCP label and no ICVCM decision found for this project's methodology.

  • Removal or reduction

    Emission reduction or avoidance

    Prevents or reduces emissions — fits contribution claims, not SBTi neutralisation.

    Source: project sector

  • Paris Agreement (Article 6)

    No Article 6 authorization

    No corresponding adjustment: the host country can also count this reduction towards its own target.

    Source: registry label

Information only, from public sources. Claim rules (CORSIA, SBTi, EU rules on green claims) change: check them before making a public claim. Since 27 September 2026, EU consumer rules do not allow “climate neutral” product claims based on offsets.

Registry labels last checked:2026-10-25

Credit Vintages

IssuedRetiredAvailable
2019
1,8105001,310
2020
6,9388736,065
2021
15,30513,7251,580
2022
11,2791,4539,826
Total35,33216,55118,781

Methodology versions used

The methodology version stated in each monitoring, verification and issuance document, by period, compared with the official methodology pages.

  1. 2019–2021AMS-III.D v21.0since replaced by v22.0

    verification report

    official page · verified on

  2. 2021–2022AMS-III.D v21.0since replaced by v22.0

    monitoring report + verification report

    official page · verified on

  3. Period not statedAMS-III.D v21.0since replaced by v22.0

    verification report

    official page · verified on

  • AMS-III.D: Active (CDM / UNFCCC) · official page · verified on

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