Guohua Guangrao Wind Farm Project (phase I)

Audit Analysis

A CDM wind energy project in China with VVB-confirmed combined additionality and a jurisdictional grid-emission-factor baseline. The project over-delivered relative to its ex-ante estimate during the first monitoring period, and no reversal or leakage concerns are evident for this technology. However, contradictions between the PDD, validation report, and monitoring report on baseline method and leakage justification, combined with absent safeguards documentation (no FPIC, no grievance mechanism), moderate the overall assessment.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Baseline method is characterised as 'project-specific' in the monitoring report but 'jurisdictional' in the validation report — the VVB's jurisdictional characterisation is privileged, but the inconsistency undermines confidence in the baseline documentation.
• ⚠Leakage justification shifts from 'deemed negligible' (validation report, 2012) to 'quantified' (monitoring report, 2014) while the deduction remains 0%; the quantification basis is not transparently documented.
• ⚠No FPIC, grievance mechanism, or benefit-sharing detail beyond a boolean flag is found in the extracted record, leaving social-safeguard compliance unverified.
• ⚠Crediting period end date is not stated in any available document, making the full lifetime of the project uncertain.

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