Hiriya Landfill Project

Audit Analysis

The Hiriya Landfill Project is a CDM landfill gas project using the well-established ACM0001 v11 methodology, verified by ERM CVS. However, the project carries significant documentation concerns: twelve material findings, seven corrective actions, contradictory leakage treatment between the validation and monitoring reports, and a project-specific modeled baseline without a buffer pool. The project delivered roughly 360% of the pro-rata expectation for the first monitoring period, suggesting a conservative baseline, but the overall evidence base is weakened by the volume of unresolved issues.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Twelve material findings and seven corrective actions identified in the monitoring report, including inconsistent waste composition parameters (wOM, wBM) not updated for the second crediting period and missing justification for baseline simplifications
• ⚠Contradictory leakage treatment: the validation report (Oct 2011) deems leakage negligible, while the monitoring report (Jul 2012) records it as not addressed, with a 0% deduction in both cases
• ⚠No buffer pool or permanence mechanism documented for the project, and no reversal events data available
• ⚠Additionality test (combined) is present but VVB confirmation of the test outcome is not stated in the extracted record
• ⚠No FPIC, grievance mechanism, or end-use tracking documented despite safeguards being mentioned

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