Patagonia Region Improved Grazing Project

Audit Analysis

The Patagonia Region Improved Grazing Project (VCS-3014) is a soil-carbon ALU project at the validation stage with a VVB-confirmed barrier additionality test and a 19% buffer pool, but is undermined by contradictory leakage justifications across validation reports, a significant crediting-period discrepancy between the PDD and the validation report, and a low extraction confidence across the document set. No monitoring or verification data is yet available, which is expected at this stage but limits the ability to confirm delivery.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Leakage justification is contradictory: the 2025-02-03 validation report states 'quantified' while the 2024-07-12 validation report states 'deemed_negligible' for the same 0% deduction, creating ambiguity about whether leakage was actually quantified or simply assumed negligible.
• ⚠Crediting period discrepancy: the PDD (2022-07-18) states a 20-year period (2022-04-01 to 2042-03-31) while the validation report (2024-07-12) states a 40-year period (2022-01-18 to 2062-01-17), which materially changes the implied annual credit rate and total ERR.
• ⚠Reversal events are marked as 'not_addressed' in the extracted record, even though a Non-Permanence Risk Analysis was completed during validation, leaving the permanence risk treatment unclear.
• ⚠Minimum extraction confidence is rated 'low', indicating at least one key document was poorly readable, reducing reliability of the extracted data.

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.