Seoni Enhanced Rock Weathering Project

Audit Analysis

The Seoni Enhanced Rock Weathering project (Mati Carbon, Isometric standard) presents a scientifically grounded design with a 20% buffer pool, quantified leakage treatment, and documented safeguards including FPIC and a grievance mechanism. However, the verification body is the standard's own headquarters (Isometric HQ Ltd), raising independence concerns, and no quantitative ERR figures, monitoring data, or independent storage verification are available. The project is in a pre-implementation stage (crediting period begins January 2025), so the absence of monitoring data is expected, but the 1000-year permanence claim and project-specific baseline remain unverified by an independent third party.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠The verification body is Isometric HQ Ltd, the standard's own headquarters, rather than an independent third-party VVB, undermining the independence of the additionality verification and overall audit trail.
• ⚠No quantitative ERR figures (claimed, verified, or ex-ante lifetime) are available in any document, making it impossible to assess over- or under-crediting risk.
• ⚠Six corrective actions remain open in the PDD, including gaps in documenting farmers' fertilization practices, soil sampling methodology in hard clay pan conditions, and lateral water movement accounting.
• ⚠The 1000-year permanence claim, while reasonable for carbonate mineral formation, has not been independently verified and no storage verification data is available.
• ⚠Storage permanence independent verification not found in available documents

Credit Vintages

Issuance data not yet available — check back soon.