Clean Cooking Access for Women in Rural Maharashtra

Audit Analysis

A VCS-registered cookstove project in rural Maharashtra with confirmed additionality and a reasonable 5% leakage deduction, but significant documentation gaps including low extraction confidence, no monitoring data, and an unaddressed leakage justification in the final validation report. The project-specific baseline and absence of usage-rate data limit confidence in the 20.6 MtCO₂e lifetime claim.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Leakage justification marked as 'not addressed' in the final validation report (Aug 2024) despite a 5% deduction being applied — the earlier validation (Apr 2024) described it as 'quantified', suggesting the justification was lost or removed
• ⚠Low extraction confidence across the document set, with one document of unknown type, undermining reliability of the extracted record
• ⚠No monitoring or verification report available; the project is registered but zero verified emissions reductions have been reported
• ⚠23 Corrective Action Requests were raised during validation, indicating material documentation deficiencies that had to be remediated

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.