Gansu Jingtieshan Hydro Power Project

Audit Analysis

The Gansu Jingtieshan Hydro Power Project is a CDM-era hydro avoidance project with a jurisdictional baseline and a combined additionality test, but the available record is limited to validation-stage documents with no monitoring or verification reports. A significant discrepancy between the PDD (89,704 tCO₂e) and the validation report (627,928 tCO₂e) undermines confidence in the claimed emission reductions, and the absence of verified monitoring data prevents any assessment of actual delivery.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Total ERR differs by a factor of ~7 between the PDD (89,704 tCO₂e) and the validation report (627,928 tCO₂e); the basis for each figure is not clarified in the extracted record
• ⚠No monitoring reports or verification reports are present in the evidence set, so actual emission reductions have never been independently confirmed
• ⚠Leakage treatment is inconsistent: the PDD states leakage was 'deemed negligible' while an appendix describes it as 'quantified', and no quantified value is provided
• ⚠Additionality test type is recorded as 'combined' but explicit VVB confirmation of the additionality assessment is not found in the extracted record

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