Hebei Shangyi Manjing East Wind Farm Project

Audit Analysis

A CDM wind project in China with a jurisdictional baseline and reasonable 0% leakage assumption, but significant gaps in the evidence record: the VVB did not explicitly confirm additionality, no monitoring or verification reports are available, and two contradictions exist between the PDD and an appendix. The project type (wind) inherently limits permanence and over-crediting risk, but the absence of verified emission reductions and the unresolved additionality flag prevent a higher confidence rating.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Additionality was not confirmed by the VVB (Bureau Veritas Certification), and the validation report flagged that the description of AM Tool 11 criteria was unclear
• ⚠No monitoring reports or verified emission reduction figures are present in the extracted record despite the crediting period ending in March 2021
• ⚠Contradiction between the PDD (leakage deemed negligible) and an appendix (leakage quantified) was not resolved in the available documents
• ⚠Eight material findings were raised at validation, including an incorrect justification for project emission sources and a baseline emission factor that needed recalculation

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