REMONDIS Recycling CO2 Emissions Reductions from Glass Recycling, Germany

Audit Analysis

This Gold Standard glass-recycling energy-efficiency project in Germany has a VVB-confirmed additionality assessment and no reversal risk, but is undermined by an extensive list of material findings and corrective actions (over 25 items), five cross-document contradictions in key emission figures, a project-specific baseline, and a 0% leakage deduction whose justification is inconsistent between the verification and monitoring reports. The low extraction confidence and missing monitoring-method details further erode confidence in the reported figures.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Five cross-document contradictions in key figures, including a 5× discrepancy in the lifetime ex-ante emission reduction (1,226 tCO₂e in the 2025 verification report vs 6,130 tCO₂e in the 2025 monitoring report), which makes the true ex-ante baseline uncertain.
• ⚠Over 25 material findings and 21 corrective actions spanning missing calibration certificates, missing invoices, data-entry errors in electricity and diesel consumption, and incomplete PDD sections on baseline and leakage calculation conditions.
• ⚠Leakage treatment is inconsistent: the 2025 verification report states leakage is 'deemed negligible' with a 0% deduction, while the 2023 monitoring report describes it as 'quantified', leaving the actual leakage position ambiguous.
• ⚠The grid emission factor of 0.587 tCO₂/MWh is sourced from 2008 and was flagged for an updated source link, raising the risk that the baseline emission factor is outdated.
• ⚠Low extraction confidence across the document set, meaning at least one key document was poorly readable and the structured data may be incomplete.

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