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Re-assessment pendingGSEnergy Efficiency - DomesticMaliRegistry: RegisteredGS-TPDDTEC

Bamako Clean Cookstoves - Improving livelihoods and fighting desertification in the Sahel zone

Developer: Swiss Carbon Value Ltd

GS-874 ↗ · current registry ID: GS5003

#407of 1734 in Industrial#2of 6 in Mali#554of 2180 in Gold Standard (GS)#48of 313 in GS-TPDDTEC

Score from methodology v2.1 (analysis of 1 Sep 2026). Re-assessment under v2.2 pending.

Assessment

CarbonMeld document-based assessment

01020304 Overall 5.4 / 10 Dimension scores are locked — the faint arcs are empty tracks, not zero scores.

Scale 0–10 · method weights: integrity 35% · transparency 25% · claim safety 25% · documentation 15%.

Re-assessment pending · v2.1

Analysis

The Bamako Clean Cookstoves project demonstrates solid additionality (VVB-confirmed combined test) and good social safeguards (FPIC, grievance mechanism, benefit sharing), but is weakened by the absence of a buffer pool, unaddressed reversal risk, a 0% leakage deduction with no justification in the most recent verification report, and a project-specific baseline. Multiple corrective actions and a Gold Standard FAR were raised during verification, all subsequently closed, indicating quality issues that were remediated. The project is a mid-tier Gold Standard cookstove credit with moderate over-crediting risk.

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Findings

Risk Indicators

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Baseline

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Safeguards

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Eligibility & market

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  • Airlines (CORSIA)

    Pilot phase only (2021–2023)

    Eligible only for the pilot phase: not usable for the current 2024–2026 phase.

    Source: registry label

  • Integrity label (ICVCM CCP)

    Methodology approved by ICVCMGS TPDDTEC

    The methodology meets the Core Carbon Principles; this project's credits do not carry the CCP label yet.

    Source: ICVCM assessment

  • Removal or reduction

    Emission reduction or avoidance

    Prevents or reduces emissions — fits contribution claims, not SBTi neutralisation.

    Source: registry label

  • Paris Agreement (Article 6)

    Not published

    This registry does not publish Article 6 authorizations.

Information only, from public sources. Claim rules (CORSIA, SBTi, EU rules on green claims) change: check them before making a public claim. Since 27 September 2026, EU consumer rules do not allow “climate neutral” product claims based on offsets.

Registry labels last checked:2026-09-27

Credit Vintages

IssuedRetiredAvailable
2016
2022020
2017
33,82933,8290
2018
67,13762,5464,591
2019
75,31863,95911,359
2020
76,44861,44815,000
2021
86,15612,54073,616
2022
68,36868,3680
Total407,458302,892104,566

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Profile & governance

Analysis ProvenanceTechnologies and Practices to Displace Decentralized Thermal Energy Consumption

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