Waste Management PoA in India VPA 1

Audit Analysis

This Gold Standard composting project (VPA 01, India) presents a significant integrity concern: the verification report does not confirm additionality by the VVB, directly contradicting the earlier validation report. The project also carries a 0% leakage deduction with inconsistent justification across documents, a project-specific modeled baseline, and ten outstanding corrective actions. While no reversal events were reported and the verified emissions are well below the pro-rata ex-ante expectation (a conservative signal), the combination of additionality uncertainty, data gaps, and documentation deficiencies limits confidence in the credit's robustness.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Additionality was confirmed at validation (2022) but NOT confirmed by the VVB at verification (2023) — a direct contradiction that undermines the project's core additionality claim
• ⚠Ten corrective actions remain outstanding, including a mismatch between project emissions in the monitoring report and the ER sheet, missing QA/QC procedures, and missing calibration details for the weighing device
• ⚠Leakage deduction is 0% with inconsistent justification: the verification report states leakage was 'quantified' while the PDD states it was 'deemed negligible'
• ⚠FPIC was not conducted, despite the project operating in a community context in India

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