Clean and Efficient Cooking and Heating Project, China

Audit Analysis

A Gold Standard cook-stove project in China with solid additionality (combined test confirmed by TÜV SÜD) and well-documented safeguards (FPIC, grievance mechanism, benefit sharing). However, the project relies on a project-specific baseline with no stated reassessment date, applies a 0% leakage deduction, and lacks a buffer pool, leaving permanence and over-crediting risks partially unaddressed. A notable data-quality concern is the reversal-events field containing text about 'pellets' that appears copied from an unrelated project type.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Reversal-events detail reads 'No pellets were produced and identified during the site visit,' which is clearly inapplicable to a cook-stove project and suggests a templating or copy-paste error in the verification report
• ⚠Baseline last reassessed date is not stated in any document; the project-specific baseline has not been shown to be updated since project inception in 2009
• ⚠Leakage deduction is 0% in the 2016 verification report, down from 0.6% in the 2011 monitoring report, with the justification shifting from 'deemed negligible' to 'quantified' without a clear methodological explanation for the change

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