GIRUÁ LANDFILL GAS PROJECT

Audit Analysis

The Giruá Landfill Gas Project is a VCS-registered methane avoidance project in Brazil with VVB-confirmed additionality and a reasonable 0% leakage deduction, but it carries moderate risks from a project-specific baseline, seven inter-document contradictions, and six corrective action requests raised during verification. The VVB's 31% reduction of the initially claimed ERR is a positive signal of conservative verification, yet gaps in buffer pool documentation, FPIC consistency, and CORSIA/CCP status limit confidence.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Seven contradictions across documents, including conflicting FPIC status (validation report says conducted; verification report says not conducted) and a 31% gap between the monitoring report's claimed ERR (147,788 tCO2e) and the VVB-verified figure (101,961 tCO2e)
• ⚠Six corrective action requests raised by the Applus+ verification team, indicating material errors in the monitoring report's emissions determination, parameter listings, and methodological references
• ⚠Buffer pool percentage not stated in any available document, leaving permanence risk unquantified for this 7-year crediting period
• ⚠Baseline is project-specific rather than jurisdictional, and the last reassessment date is not stated in the extracted record

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.