Tangyin County MSW Landfill Site LFG Pollution Control and Comprehensive Utilization Project

Audit Analysis

A VCS-registered landfill gas capture and utilisation project in China with a reputable VVB (Applus+), but the verification report identifies nine material findings and seven corrective actions, and a critical contradiction over whether LFG capture is legally mandated under GB 50869-2013, which undermines the additionality claim. The project delivered roughly 61% of its pro-rata ex-ante expectation for the elapsed monitoring period, which is conservative, but the combination of a project-specific baseline, unresolved legal-requirement questions, and low extraction confidence limits confidence in the credit quality.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Verification report states capture is legally required (GB 50869-2013) while the validation report says it is not; the material finding flags 'insufficient baseline scenario justification regarding legal requirements for LFG treatment', directly challenging additionality.
• ⚠Nine material findings and seven corrective actions in the verification report, including a suspected calculation error in methane destruction unit conversion and inconsistencies in grid emission factor and TDLj parameter usage.
• ⚠Eight contradictions across documents, including conflicting grid emission factors (0.57205 vs 0.8587) within the same verification report, and conflicting additionality test types (investment vs combined).
• ⚠Minimum extraction confidence rated 'low', indicating at least one key document was poorly readable, reducing reliability of the extracted record.

Credit Vintages