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GS-1602 ↗ · current registry ID: GS4205
#1043of 1329 in Industrial#833of 975 in India#1487of 1801 in Gold Standard (GS)
Audit Analysis
This Gold Standard drinking-water project in India has a VVB-confirmed additionality assessment and documented safeguards, but suffers from a severe usage-rate discrepancy (100% assumed vs 25.4% verified), a project-specific baseline with no recorded reassessment, multiple unresolved Forward Action Requests, and several cross-document contradictions that undermine confidence in the claimed emission reductions.
Red Flags
- Usage rate assumed at 100% in the PDD but only 25.4% verified in the 2020 monitoring report — a roughly 4× overstatement of eligible water use
- Crediting period start date differs between the verification report (2014-11-01) and the monitoring report (2017-09-01), and the end date is missing in the verification report
- FNRB value of 84.5 (2023 monitoring report) contradicts 0.845 (2019 monitoring report), suggesting a possible unit error or data-entry mistake
- Multiple Forward Action Requests remain open, including a cap on ERs at 10,000 tCO2 and a requirement for an Objective Observer site visit
- Reversal events are explicitly 'not addressed' and no buffer pool percentage is stated in any available document
Credit Vintages Exhausted
| Issued | Retired | Available | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 1,712 | 1,712 | 0 | |
| 2015 | 9,952 | 9,952 | 0 | |
| 2016 | 9,905 | 9,905 | 0 | |
| 2017 | 9,931 | 9,931 | 0 | |
| 2018 | 8,462 | 8,462 | 0 | |
| 2019 | 9,222 | 9,222 | 0 | |
| 2020 | 7,090 | 7,090 | 0 | |
| Total | 56,274 | 56,274 | 0 |
Risk Indicators
VVB-confirmed combined test
mixed evidence / unresolved risk
Quantified per 2023 report but no specific deduction; 2017 report says not addressed
Project-specific baseline, no reassessment date recorded
FPIC conducted, grievance mechanism present
CORSIA and CCP status both not stated
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