WASTEWATER TO BIOGAS GROUPED PROJECT

Audit Analysis

A registered VCS grouped biogas project in Malaysia with VVB-confirmed additionality and a measured project-specific baseline, but significant gaps in monitoring data, a 0% leakage deduction with contradictory justifications across documents, an open forward action on land title, and low extraction confidence in the underlying records. The project is in its early crediting period with no verified emissions reductions yet reported.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Leakage justification is contradictory: the validation report (2024-09-17) states 'deemed negligible' while the PDD references a 'quantified' approach, and the 0% deduction for a methane-handling biogas system warrants closer scrutiny.
• ⚠One Forward Action Request (FAR-01) regarding conversion of land title from Agricultural to Industrial under Malaysia's National Land Code remains open, creating a legal compliance risk for the project's physical operations.
• ⚠No monitoring report or verified ERR figure is available; the project has no independently verified emissions reductions to date.
• ⚠The grid emission factor is from 2017, and the validation report flagged this as requiring justification as the latest Combined Margin data available.
• ⚠Minimum extraction confidence is rated 'low', indicating at least one key document was poorly readable, reducing reliability of the extracted record.

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.