Hebei Lingda Municipal Solid Waste Incineration Project

Audit Analysis

A CDM municipal solid waste incineration project in China with a VVB-confirmed combined additionality test and a quantified leakage treatment, but significant gaps in monitoring data, permanence safeguards (no buffer pool), and independent verification of actual emission reductions. The identical claimed and verified ERR figures, combined with the absence of any monitoring reports in the evidence set, raise questions about whether actual performance has been independently verified.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Total ERR claimed and verified are identical (1,019,914 tCO2e), and no monitoring period or monitoring reports appear in the evidence set, suggesting the 'verified' figure may simply be the ex-ante estimate rather than an independently verified actual
• ⚠Leakage is described as 'quantified' in the justification but the actual deduction percentage is not stated in any available document
• ⚠Material finding: the EFN2O value in the PDD was initially incorrect (not the IPCC default) and required correction, indicating a quality-control gap in the original submission

Credit Vintages

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