Tasar Forest Carbon Project

Audit Analysis

The Tasar Forest Carbon Project (VCS-4708) is a VCS ALF soil-carbon project in India with a VVB-confirmed combined additionality test and a 20% buffer pool, but it carries significant quality concerns: a zero-leakage assumption flagged as insufficiently evidenced, a project-specific baseline, 11 material findings requiring corrective action, and a 57% reduction in the claimed ERR between PDD revisions. The low extraction confidence and an 'unknown' document type further weaken the evidentiary base.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Zero leakage deduction justified only as 'deemed negligible,' yet the validation report's material findings explicitly cite 'insufficient evidence for the zero leakage assumption' — a material gap for a forest/soil-carbon project in a region with active biomass removal (silkworms, firewood).
• ⚠The claimed ERR was reduced by approximately 57% between the October 2023 PDD (1,143,566 tCO₂e) and the March 2026 PDD (498,985 tCO₂e), indicating the initial project boundary and credit estimate were substantially over-stated before correction.
• ⚠Eleven corrective actions were required during validation, spanning KML boundary errors, baseline description inconsistencies, unclear non-permanence risk scores, missing additionality elements, and insufficient ownership evidence — suggesting the initial submission was materially deficient.
• ⚠The reversal-events field is contradictory: the validation report states non-permanence is 'not addressed,' while a same-date appendix references reversal events as 'reported.' This ambiguity undermines confidence in the permanence risk assessment.

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.