Henan Lehuijia Composting Project

Audit Analysis

The Henan Lehuijia Composting Project is a registered VCS manure-management project with a confirmed investment-test additionality, but it carries a heavy burden of eight material findings, three corrective actions, a 0% leakage deduction with contradictory justifications, and no stated buffer pool. A public comment flagged overestimation of reductions due to a dry/wet-basis error, which was subsequently corrected, reducing the verified figure from 60,125 to 41,807 tCO₂e. The project is functional but exhibits meaningful integrity and claim-safety weaknesses that warrant caution.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Eight material findings in the verification report, including missing investment-analysis detail, missing AMS-III.F monitoring requirements, and unclear applicability of a key methodology condition
• ⚠Public comment identified overestimation of emission reductions due to confusion between dry and wet basis of manure; a corrective action recalculated the figure downward from 60,125 to 41,807 tCO₂e
• ⚠Leakage deduction of 0% with contradictory justifications across documents (verification report says 'not addressed'; monitoring report says 'deemed negligible')
• ⚠FPIC status contradicted between the PDD (not conducted) and the verification report (conducted), both dated 2022-12-13

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