carbon Bolivia Documentazione completa General Methodology v2.0

Ketrawe Foundation 2018-2023

DV-0b08c9

3.5 / 10

Integrity

2.6

Transparency

4.1

Claim Safety

3.2

Documentation

5.4

Score Breakdown

Integrity

missing Baseline, additionality, leakage, and permanence/buffer details are not stated in the extracted record (monitoring report 2024-11 and supporting documents list).

verified The monitoring report (2024-11) reports no material findings and no corrective actions required.

Transparency

verified A VVB is identified (Control Union) and a monitoring report dated 2024-11 is available in the evidence set.

missing Total emission reductions/removals claimed and verified are not stated in the extracted record, limiting MRV transparency.

Claim Safety

verified The extracted record states the project is not CORSIA-eligible, reducing aviation-claim channel risk.

missing Over-crediting risk cannot be screened because baseline method, leakage treatment, and verified vs claimed totals are not stated in the extracted record.

Documentation

verified Three document types are referenced (monitoring report, validation report, and an additional document) with high extraction confidence.

missing Key governance/safeguards elements are weak or missing (no grievance mechanism, no FPIC, and benefit sharing not described in the extracted record).

Detailed Analysis

Integrity

The extracted record does not state how the baseline was set or when it was last reassessed, which is central for soil carbon credit integrity (monitoring report 2024-11). Additionality is not described and is not confirmed by the VVB in the extracted fields (monitoring report 2024-11). Permanence risk management is unclear because no buffer pool contribution and no reversal reporting are found in the extracted record (monitoring report 2024-11). Leakage is also not quantified or justified in the extracted record (monitoring report 2024-11).

Transparency

A VVB is named (Control Union) and the monitoring period is long (2013-01-01 to 2023-12-31), which could support transparency if paired with clear MRV outputs (monitoring report 2024-11). However, the extracted record does not include total credits claimed or verified, preventing a basic consistency check between monitoring and verification outcomes (monitoring report 2024-11). The registry field is not found in the extracted record, limiting traceability from documents to issuance/retirement records (monitoring report 2024-11).

Claim Safety

The project is stated as not CORSIA-eligible, which reduces the risk of aviation-related claims being made under CORSIA (monitoring report 2024-11). CCP status is not stated in the extracted record, so buyers cannot easily assess alignment with higher-integrity labels (monitoring report 2024-11). Because baseline method, leakage approach, and verified vs claimed totals are not stated, there is elevated greenwashing/over-crediting risk from an inability to substantiate the quantified climate benefit (monitoring report 2024-11).

Documentation

The evidence set includes a monitoring report, a validation report, and one additional document, and extraction confidence is high, suggesting the documents were readable (evidence docs list; monitoring report 2024-11). Still, several critical fields are absent from the extracted record (methodology, baseline, leakage, buffer/reversals, ER totals), indicating incomplete disclosure or incomplete extraction of key sections. Social safeguards documentation appears weak: FPIC is reported as not conducted, there is no grievance mechanism, and benefit sharing is not described (monitoring report 2024-11).

Overall

Overall quality is constrained by missing core integrity information (baseline, additionality, leakage, permanence) and missing quantified outcomes (claimed and verified totals), which prevents a robust over-crediting screen (monitoring report 2024-11). One contradiction is present on safeguards: the monitoring report (2024-11) indicates safeguards are not mentioned, while an earlier document (dated 2023-08, type unknown) indicates safeguards were mentioned. I privilege the monitoring report value because it is more recent and is a primary MRV document; the contradiction lowers confidence in the consistency of safeguards reporting and slightly depresses transparency/documentation scoring. Note: if integrity were to score below 4.0, an overall cap would apply under the gate rules (applied post-scoring).

Audit Analysis

This soil carbon project has major evidence gaps on core integrity items (baseline approach, additionality, leakage treatment, and permanence/buffer provisions) in the extracted record. While a VVB is named and no material findings/corrective actions are reported, the lack of quantified ER claims/verification figures and missing methodological details increases over-crediting and claims risk.

Project Description

Ketrawe, meaning “fertile land”, is dedicated to creating windbreak forests, which offer numerous environmental benefits. Nestled within Bolivia's agricultural matrix lies HDS1 Evergreen Broadleaf Forest, which has remained at least 30-years undisturbed, a critical reservoir of biodiversity facing pressure from expanding sugarcane cultivation. Ketrawe Foundation is all about claiming the forest back from agriculture and cattle raising. The task is to convince farmers that trees are their b

Red Flags

Baseline approach and any reassessment timing are not stated in the extracted record, making it hard to judge whether credited removals are conservative.
No additionality test is found in the extracted record, and it is not confirmed by the VVB.
Leakage deduction and justification are not stated, despite soil carbon projects often having activity-shifting and market leakage considerations.
Permanence provisions (buffer pool percentage) and any reversal reporting are not found in the extracted record.

Credit Vintages

Nessuna emissione registrata sul registro.

Cosa migliorerebbe questo punteggio

Disclose the applied soil carbon methodology and baseline approach (including last reassessment date) and publish the quantified claimed vs verified totals for the monitoring period.
Provide permanence risk management details (buffer pool contribution, reversal monitoring and response procedures) and a clear leakage assessment with quantified deduction or justified negligible leakage.
Strengthen and document safeguards: conduct FPIC where applicable, implement a grievance mechanism, and publish benefit-sharing arrangements; resolve the safeguards reporting inconsistency across documents.

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