Jocū Bucūrō Apūrō

Audit Analysis

Jocū Bucūrō Apūrō is a Colombian REDD+ project with solid structural fundamentals—VVB-confirmed additionality, a jurisdictional baseline, a 9.5% buffer pool, and no reported reversals—but is undermined by a resolved geographic overlap with a neighbouring project, a 0% leakage deduction whose justification is internally inconsistent, and a first monitoring period that delivered only about 53–58% of the pro-rata ex-ante expectation. The large volume of corrective actions and low document-readability confidence further erode confidence in the project's data integrity.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Geographic overlap with the Dabucury REDD+ project (ID19) was identified post-certification; 10,003 and 95,292 credits were cancelled and the collective reserve replenished, indicating a boundary-definition failure at project design.
• ⚠Leakage justification is internally contradictory within the same verification report: one section states leakage was 'deemed negligible' while another indicates it was 'not addressed', leaving the 0% deduction without a clear, consistent rationale.
• ⚠The first monitoring period (2018–2021) verified only 115,461 tCO₂e against a pro-rata expectation of roughly 219,442 tCO₂e (≈53% delivery), a significant under-delivery that may signal over-optimistic ex-ante assumptions.
• ⚠Low extraction confidence across the document set means at least one key document was poorly readable, limiting the reliability of the extracted data.

Credit Vintages