Henan Dengzhou Biomass cogeneration Project

Audit Analysis

A CDM biomass cogeneration project in Henan, China with a confirmed investment-test additionality and an established methodology (ACM0006 v14.0), but undermined by a seven-fold discrepancy in reported emission reductions between the validation report and an appendix, a contradictory leakage treatment, and a low-confidence document extraction that limits verifiability. The project is at the validation stage with no monitoring or verification reports available, making ongoing performance assessment impossible.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Seven-fold ERR discrepancy: the validation report states 77,483 tCO₂e while an appendix lists 542,381 tCO₂e — a factor-of-7 gap that cannot be reconciled from available documents
• ⚠Leakage treatment is contradictory: the validation report records a 0% deduction as 'deemed negligible' while an appendix describes leakage as 'quantified', leaving the actual treatment unclear
• ⚠Low extraction confidence across the document set, with one of four source documents of unknown type, limiting the reliability of all extracted figures
• ⚠No monitoring or verification reports are present in the evidence set; only the 2019 validation-stage documents are available, so no post-issuance performance data can be assessed

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