Carbon Emission Reduction Program through CCDB Improved Cook Stove (ICS) in Bangladesh – VPA 1 – Patharghata and Morrelganj 1

Audit Analysis

A Gold Standard improved cook stove project in Bangladesh with VVB-confirmed additionality and a quantified leakage deduction, but undermined by a project-specific baseline, unaddressed permanence/reversal risk, multiple contradictions between the PDD, monitoring report, and verification report, and a low extraction confidence that limits confidence in the extracted record. The absence of verified ERR figures and a verified usage rate further weakens the evidentiary basis for the claimed reductions.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Eight contradictions between documents, including conflicting FNRB methods (national default vs. local field) and monitoring methods (smart meter vs. annual survey), raising data-reliability concerns
• ⚠Reversal/permanence risk explicitly not addressed and no buffer pool percentage stated in any available document
• ⚠Low extraction confidence across the document set, meaning at least one key document was poorly readable and key figures (ERR claimed, ERR verified, usage rate verified) could not be confirmed
• ⚠Material findings of 3 CARs, 4 CLs, and 1 FAR in the verification report indicate the VVB identified non-trivial issues during verification

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