GS1247 VPA 84 Zoba Maekel Community Boreholes

Audit Analysis

This Gold Standard community borehole project in Eritrea has a VVB-confirmed additionality assessment and no reported reversal events, but is undermined by 11 cross-document contradictions, a material finding of double-counting boreholes and users, a 0% leakage deduction justified only as 'deemed negligible' (contradicting the PDD's 5% figure), and 14 outstanding corrective actions. The significant gap between claimed (39,380) and verified (14,348) emission reductions, combined with the absence of a buffer pool and unclear CORSIA/CCP status, limits confidence in the credit's integrity and claim safety.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Double counting of boreholes and users in close proximity was identified in the verification report and resolved only through GPS updates and duplicate removal, indicating weak initial MRV controls.
• ⚠Eleven contradictions across documents, including a shift in leakage justification from 'quantified' (2020 monitoring) to 'deemed negligible' (2023 monitoring) and a change in fNRB from 0.85 (PDD) to 0.97 (monitoring report), raise data-reliability concerns.
• ⚠Claimed ERR of 39,380 versus verified ERR of 14,348 represents a 63.6% shortfall if both refer to the same monitoring period, or a 127% over-delivery on a pro-rata basis (2-year monitoring / 7-year crediting period); the ambiguity itself is a red flag.
• ⚠Fourteen corrective actions remain, including the need to elaborate the leakage analysis in a detailed manner and to submit baseline survey and field-test results.

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