PROJECT TOURBA - ADOPTION OF IMPROVED AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES TOWARDS CARBON FARMING IN MOROCCO

Audit Analysis

Project Tourba is a newly registered VCS soil-carbon project in Morocco (36 smallholder parcels, VM0017) with a confirmed barrier-test additionality and a 30% buffer pool, but significant gaps remain in permanence and leakage treatment. The project is too early in its crediting period to have verified emissions reductions, and a contradiction in the leakage treatment between two validation report drafts raises data-reliability concerns. Low extraction confidence across the document set further limits the depth of assurance available.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Reversal events are marked as 'not addressed' in the validation report, which is a material gap for a soil-carbon project where carbon loss from soil is a realistic risk
• ⚠Leakage treatment is contradictory: the earlier validation report (Jan 2026) states leakage was 'quantified' while the more recent one (Feb 2026) states it was 'not addressed'; the more recent document is privileged, leaving the project without a documented leakage deduction
• ⚠Minimum extraction confidence is rated 'low', indicating at least one key document was poorly readable and the structured record may be incomplete
• ⚠Monitoring period (ending Jul 2042) is approximately 15 months shorter than the crediting period (ending Oct 2043), leaving a gap in MRV coverage for the final portion of the crediting period

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.