HPP José Luiz Müller de Godoy Pereira (JUN1173), Brazil

Audit Analysis

A CDM small-hydro project in Brazil with a sound jurisdictional baseline and VVB-confirmed additionality, but undermined by three corrective action requests flagging calculation errors in the validation report, a complete absence of monitoring data, and a notable safeguards gap (no FPIC, no grievance mechanism). The fundamental hydro-displacement claim is credible, yet the documentation record is thin and the safeguards picture is weak.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Three corrective action requests (CARs) in the validation report indicate the emission factor calculation was performed for the wrong crediting period, the crediting-period start date was mis-set, and a required parameter (EFRes) was omitted from the PDD
• ⚠No Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) was conducted and no grievance mechanism is in place, despite the project operating in a Brazilian community context
• ⚠No monitoring report or verified ERR figure is present in the extracted record; the project has been in its first crediting period since October 2021 with no public verification data
• ⚠The PDD and validation report (both dated 27 July 2022) disagree on whether safeguards and benefit-sharing are described, creating ambiguity about the project's social compliance

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.