GUAINIA REDD+ PROJECT

Audit Analysis

The Guainia REDD+ project has a technically sound framework with a VVB-verified combined additionality test, jurisdictional baseline, 11.7% buffer pool, and a 15% quantified leakage deduction. However, the verification report identified 40 findings (including 4 Significant Adverse Findings left unaddressed), seven cross-document contradictions, and unresolved gaps in reversal-event reporting, FNRB, and CORSIA/CCP status, substantially undermining confidence in the project's data integrity and claim safety.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠4 Significant Adverse Findings (SAF) remain unaddressed by the project proponent, including failure to implement the PQR complaint mechanism in the field and lack of official exclusion evidence from overlapping projects
• ⚠Seven contradictions across documents, including a 3.2× discrepancy in verified ERR (4.2M vs 13.5M tCO₂e) and conflicting crediting periods (20 vs 35 years), raising serious data-reliability concerns
• ⚠Reversal events are described as 'not addressed' in the most recent verification report, despite the project relying on a 11.7% carbon reserve as its sole permanence safeguard
• ⚠FPIC evidence is contested: the verification report flags lack of photographic/video evidence for assemblies, community uncertainty about the consent process, and missing consent forms for the joint project structure

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