Cleaner Cooking Solutions Program

Audit Analysis

The Cleaner Cooking Solutions Program in Cambodia is a VCS-registered energy-demand project with solid core integrity elements: VVB-confirmed additionality, a quantified 5% leakage deduction, no reversal events, and a recently reassessed project-specific baseline. However, 13 documented contradictions across verification, monitoring, and design reports — particularly in usage rate (87.8% vs 99.9%) and FNRB (0.97 vs 0.72) — introduce meaningful data-reliability concerns that temper confidence in the credit figures. The project is not CORSIA-eligible, and the verified ERR matches the claimed ERR for the monitoring period, but the absence of a stated buffer pool and CCP status leaves gaps in permanence and double-claiming assurance.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠13 contradictions across documents, including a usage-rate discrepancy of 87.8% (2025 monitoring report) versus 99.9% (2024 verification report) that materially affects credit calculations
• ⚠FNRB value conflict: 0.97 in the 2024 verification report versus 0.72 in the 2025 monitoring report, with the method also shifting from local field to national default
• ⚠Buffer pool percentage not stated in any available document, leaving permanence risk unquantified
• ⚠CCP status not stated in the extracted record, leaving dual-channel (CORSIA/CCP) risk partially unassessed
• ⚠Safeguards, grievance mechanism, benefit sharing, and FPIC all show contradictory true/false values between the 2024 and 2025 verification reports

Credit Vintages