Greenzone Reforestation Project

Audit Analysis

The Greenzone Reforestation Project in Cameroon is a registered VCS AFOLU project with a 40-year crediting period, but the validation report identifies 31 material findings spanning baseline consistency, additionality analysis, leakage justification, and documentation compliance. The zero-leakage claim is explicitly flagged as insufficiently justified for a reforestation project in a region where agricultural displacement is a well-known risk, and the ex-ante emissions reduction figures show a 13-fold discrepancy between the PDD and the validation report. No monitoring or verification data is available, and the low extraction confidence further limits the evidentiary basis for scoring.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠31 material findings in the validation report, including inconsistent baseline land-use descriptions, incomplete additionality analysis, and misaligned ex-ante ER estimation methods
• ⚠Zero leakage deduction explicitly flagged as insufficiently justified; corrective action requires evidence that agriculture is not displaced in a reforestation project in Cameroon
• ⚠13-fold discrepancy in lifetime ex-ante ERR between the PDD (105 tCO2e) and the validation report (1,390 tCO2e)
• ⚠No legally binding commitment documented for the 40-year project longevity
• ⚠No monitoring or verification reports available; total verified ERR is not stated in any document

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.