Transformational Regenerative Integrated Biodiverse Agriculture for Livelihoods (TRIBAL)

Audit Analysis

The TRIBAL project is a newly validated soil-carbon AFOLU project in India with a substantial 19% buffer pool and VVB-confirmed additionality, but the validation report surfaced an unusually high volume of material findings (43 corrective actions, 27 clarifications, 4 forward action requests) covering core scientific, governance, and double-counting concerns. The project-specific baseline, a 0% leakage deduction with only a 'deemed negligible' justification, and a flagged overlap with another VCS project collectively weaken confidence in the integrity and safety of the claimed removals. No monitoring data exists yet, and the low extraction confidence further limits the evidentiary base.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Validation report flags overlap with project areas of other VCS projects, raising a double-counting risk that must be resolved before credit issuance
• ⚠43 corrective actions and 27 clarifications were raised during validation, indicating the initial documentation was substantially incomplete across additionality, baseline, monitoring, biodiversity, and governance sections
• ⚠The RothC model modification (a core soil-carbon calculation) was found to lack sufficient scientific justification and peer-reviewed support
• ⚠Leakage deduction is 0% with only a 'deemed negligible' justification and no quantified analysis, which is a weak basis for a soil-carbon project in an agricultural context
• ⚠Non-permanence risk rating of 19.00 was flagged as insufficiently justified in the Non-Permanence Risk Report

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.