Hebei Cangzhou Municipal Solid Waste Incineration Project

Audit Analysis

A CDM municipal solid waste incineration project in China with VVB-confirmed additionality via an investment test, but significant evidence gaps in permanence, leakage quantification, and monitoring data. The project-specific baseline, absence of a stated buffer pool, and a material finding regarding an incorrect EFN2O value raise moderate concerns about the robustness of the credit claims. Documentation is limited to a 2012 validation report and a small set of supporting documents with low extraction confidence.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠No buffer pool percentage or reversal event data found in any available document, leaving permanence risk unquantified for a 10-year crediting period
• ⚠Leakage is described as 'quantified' in the validation report but no actual deduction percentage is stated in any extracted document
• ⚠Material finding: EFN2O value in the PDD was not the 2006 IPCC default and required correction to 0.050, indicating a data quality issue in the original submission
• ⚠No FPIC or grievance mechanism documented despite safeguards being mentioned
• ⚠Low extraction confidence across the document set, with one document of unknown type, limiting the reliability of the extracted record

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.