Guohua Rongcheng Phase II Wind Farm Project

Audit Analysis

A CDM wind project in China with a solid combined additionality test verified by SGS UK and a standard grid-emission-factor baseline, but weakened by a 0% leakage deduction whose justification is absent in the most recent monitoring report, four cross-document contradictions (including a 71% swing in the claimed ERR figure), and the absence of any verified ERR, FPIC, or grievance-mechanism documentation. The project is an avoidance-type wind installation with no inherent reversal risk, and the seven validation-stage corrective actions appear to have been resolved, but the overall evidentiary picture is incomplete.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Claimed ERR differs by 71% between the 2012 monitoring report (91,822 tCO₂e) and the 2014 monitoring report (156,778 tCO₂e); no verified ERR figure is available to adjudicate which is correct.
• ⚠Leakage deduction is 0% and the 2014 monitoring report records the justification as 'not addressed', while the 2012 report states it was 'quantified' — the more recent document provides no supporting rationale.
• ⚠Baseline method is recorded as 'project' in the 2014 monitoring report but 'jurisdictional' in the PDD; the PDD (the foundational CDM document) is privileged, but the discrepancy undermines confidence in the baseline description.
• ⚠No FPIC, grievance mechanism, or verified ERR figure is present in any extracted document, leaving social-safeguard and MRV-verification gaps.

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