Trees for Livelihood in Madhya Pradesh, India

Audit Analysis

A smallholder soil-carbon project in Madhya Pradesh using an afforestation methodology, currently in validation stage with a 30-year crediting period. The project has basic integrity elements (combined additionality test, buffer credits, no reversals) but carries five material findings, five corrective actions, and a questionable 0% leakage deduction. Low extraction confidence and the absence of any verified ERR figure limit confidence in the data.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Five material findings in the validation report, including unclear ownership agreements, inconsistent NPRT scores on subsistence baseline and longevity, and a KML file that did not initially delineate the project area precisely
• ⚠Leakage deduction of 0% deemed negligible for a project involving smallholder bund construction across 535 field records — a project type where displaced land-use or shifted farming activity is a plausible leakage pathway
• ⚠Five corrective actions required by the VVB before the project can proceed, indicating the validation was not clean
• ⚠Low extraction confidence across the document set, with one document of unknown type, reducing reliability of the extracted record

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.