MOTOR VERDE FORESTRY CARBON PROJECT - GRANDAS DE SALIME (SPAIN)

Audit Analysis

The Motor Verde Forestry project in Grandas de Salime is a registered VCS ALM project with a 50-year crediting period and a 12% buffer pool, but its validation report carries ten material findings spanning additionality, ownership, double-counting risk, and baseline rationale. No monitoring or verification data is available in the extracted record, and the extraction confidence is rated low, limiting the ability to confirm that claims are being met in practice. The project is structurally sound on paper but carries meaningful design-level uncertainties that temper confidence in its integrity and claim safety.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Ten material findings at validation, including insufficient additionality demonstration, unclear communal forest ownership, and an unresolved double-counting risk with Spanish national accounts requiring a Forward Action Request
• ⚠Total ex-ante ERR differs by 36% between the PDD (67,474 tCO₂e) and the validation report (43,165 tCO₂e), with no monitoring data available to reconcile the figures
• ⚠No verification or monitoring reports found in the extracted record despite the project being registered since January 2022, leaving actual performance unverified
• ⚠Double issuance with the OECC voluntary registry was not evidenced at validation, and CORSIA/CCP eligibility is not stated

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.