Improving livelihoods through Agroforestry Plantations in India

Audit Analysis

This VCS agroforestry project in India covers 462 smallholder plantations across three states and has a VVB-confirmed combined additionality test and a 20% buffer pool. However, the verified ERR figure is absent from the extracted record, reversal events are explicitly not addressed, the leakage justification is contradictory across documents, and seven inter-document contradictions (including two different lifetime ERR values in the PDD) undermine confidence in the data. The low extraction confidence and an unidentified document further weaken the evidentiary base.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Verified ERR figure is not present in any extracted document, making it impossible to confirm actual carbon delivery against the claimed 1,183,343 tCO₂e lifetime estimate
• ⚠Reversal events are explicitly marked as 'not addressed' in the verification report — a significant gap for a 30-year ALM crediting period
• ⚠Two different lifetime ERR values appear in the PDD (1,183,343 vs 1,508,518 tCO₂e), an unexplained ~27% discrepancy
• ⚠Leakage justification is contradictory: the monitoring report (2024) states 'quantified' while the PDD (2022) states 'deemed negligible', yet the deduction is 0% in both cases
• ⚠Seven contradictions across documents, including FPIC, grievance mechanism, and safeguards all reported as present in the 2026 verification report but absent in the 2025 validation report

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.