Hainan Danzhou Eman Wind Power Project

Audit Analysis

A CDM wind power project in Hainan, China, with a VVB-confirmed investment additionality test and a standardised grid-emission-factor baseline. The project is broadly sound but is undermined by a contradiction in baseline classification between the PDD and the monitoring report, a dated 2006 grid emission factor, and the absence of documented safeguards (FPIC, grievance mechanism). No material over-crediting risk is evident, but data gaps in verified ERR and permanence provisions limit confidence.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Baseline method is recorded as 'project' in the 2013 monitoring report but 'jurisdictional' in the 2010 PDD — an unresolved contradiction that affects baseline credibility
• ⚠Grid emission factor of 0.8589 tCO2/MWh is drawn from 2006 data; no evidence of update to a more recent national grid average
• ⚠No buffer pool percentage, no documented reversal-risk mitigation, and no FPIC or grievance mechanism found in any available document
• ⚠Five material findings (three CARs, two CLs) were raised during validation, indicating initial PDD quality issues that required correction

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