Qingdao Xiaojianxi Phase II MSW landfill site LFG recovery to power project

Audit Analysis

A VCS-registered landfill gas recovery project in China with a confirmed investment-test additionality and a reasonable leakage treatment, but undermined by five material findings, eight open corrective actions, a significant discrepancy between claimed and verified emission reduction figures, and low extraction confidence across the document set. The project's avoidance-based design limits permanence risk, yet the project-specific baseline and unresolved verification gaps leave meaningful uncertainty around the robustness of the credit claims.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Five material findings in the verification report, including missing no-net-harm assessment, absent stakeholder-communication records, unclarified flare-system emissions, and unverified electricity cross-checks, each generating a corrective action.
• ⚠The claimed emission reduction of 95,812 tCO₂e (2024 monitoring report) and the verified figure of 255,258 tCO₂e (2023 monitoring report) cannot be reconciled on a common basis, creating uncertainty about the true credit volume.
• ⚠Seven contradictions across documents, including conflicting statements on whether capture is legally required (PDD says yes, monitoring report says no) and whether FPIC was conducted (verification report says yes, earlier monitoring report says no).
• ⚠Minimum extraction confidence rated low, indicating at least one key document was poorly readable, which weakens the evidentiary basis for all scores.

Credit Vintages