Tahuamanu Amazon REDD Project

Audit Analysis

The Tahuamanu Amazon REDD+ Project is a structurally sound avoidance project with VVB-confirmed additionality, a 12% buffer pool, and no reversal events, but it is burdened by an unusually large volume of material findings, corrective action requests, and reporting gaps that undermine confidence in the completeness and reliability of its monitoring data. The project over-delivered relative to its pro-rata expectation (135%), which is positive for claim safety, yet the project-specific modeled baseline, 0% leakage deduction with incomplete spatial mapping, and multiple inter-document contradictions create meaningful uncertainty around the robustness of the underlying quantification.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Extensive material findings (30+ items) across verification and monitoring reports, including incomplete deforestation mapping, armed patrol disclosure, and insufficient assessment of the 100-year legally binding commitment
• ⚠0% leakage deduction despite incomplete LU/LC change matrices for the project area and leakage belt, raising questions about whether displacement of deforestation was fully assessed
• ⚠Baseline method contradiction between the 2023 verification report (jurisdictional) and the 2025 verification report (project-specific), with the project-specific modeled baseline being the more recent and privileged value
• ⚠Multiple corrective action requests (6 in one period, 5 in another) related to missing MR sections, excluded community and biodiversity monitoring indicators, and missing local-language summaries
• ⚠Community engagement concerns: lack of project knowledge among some communities (Oceanía, La República), PIACI/FENAMAD consultation gaps, and negative community impact mitigation issues

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