Project Reignite: Turning Farm Waste to Climate Action

Audit Analysis

Project Reignite is a VCS biochar removal project in India that has achieved CCP approval and delivered approximately 140% of its pro-rata ex-ante expectation for the first monitoring period. However, the project carries significant integrity concerns: a 0% buffer pool with reversal events unaddressed, no quantified leakage treatment, and the most recent verification report indicates that FPIC, grievance mechanisms, and safeguards documentation are absent. The extensive list of material findings and corrective actions, combined with numerous inter-document contradictions and low extraction confidence, substantially undermines confidence in the project's data quality and governance.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠0% buffer pool with reversal events explicitly 'not addressed' in a removal (biochar) project claiming 100-year permanence
• ⚠Leakage deduction of 0% with justification listed as 'not addressed' in the most recent verification report, despite biomass feedstock handling where displacement is plausible
• ⚠Most recent verification report (Feb 2026) reports FPIC not conducted, no grievance mechanism, and safeguards not mentioned — directly contradicting the earlier (Jun 2025) verification report
• ⚠Extensive material findings include 'No conclusion on quantification of GHG ERRs', 'Insufficient information for baseline scenario', and 'Insufficient evidence to demonstrate project's eligibility'
• ⚠Nine contradictions across documents on key fields including ERR figures, additionality test type, leakage justification, and safeguards status

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