Kantur-Akdaş Landfill Methane Recovery Project - 4

Audit Analysis

The Kantur-Akdaş Landfill Methane Recovery Project - 4 is a landfill gas-to-energy project in Turkey registered under the ICR registry, with a combined additionality test and smart-meter monitoring. However, the available record consists solely of a PDD (December 2023), with no verification report, monitoring report, or VVB documentation, leaving critical permanence, leakage, and baseline questions unresolved. The project's permanence risk is marked 'Not applicable' and no buffer pool is identified, which is a notable gap for a landfill gas project where gas composition and collection infrastructure can change over time.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Permanence risk assessment is marked 'Not applicable' in the PDD (Section 8.3), yet landfill gas projects carry inherent reversal risk from gas composition changes, collection system failure, or site closure over the 10-year crediting period (2018–2028).
• ⚠No buffer pool percentage is stated in the available documents, leaving no quantified safeguard against potential reversal of issued credits.
• ⚠Only a single document (the PDD, dated 2023-12-11) is available; no verification report, monitoring report, or VVB report was found, so additionality verification, baseline validation, and actual emissions performance remain unconfirmed.
• ⚠Leakage is set at 0% on the basis of being 'deemed negligible' without a quantified assessment, which is a thin justification for a landfill gas collection system.

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