Community Carbon Efficient Cooking Programme VPA-27

Audit Analysis

A Gold Standard efficient-cooking-stove programme in Mozambique with VVB-confirmed additionality and a recently reassessed project-specific baseline, but weakened by the absence of a buffer pool, a 0% leakage deduction justified only as 'deemed negligible,' and a long list of clerical and procedural material findings requiring corrective action. The exact match between claimed and verified ERR figures, combined with a contradictory appendix value, introduces moderate over-crediting risk.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠No buffer pool is mentioned in any available document, leaving permanence risk unmitigated for a stove project where units can fail or be resold
• ⚠Leakage deduction is 0% with only a 'deemed negligible' justification, which is weak for a distributed-cooking-stove project where units can be resold or used outside the project boundary
• ⚠22 material findings and 23 corrective actions were raised in the verification report, including missing calibration certificates, missing telephonic-verification evidence, and arithmetic inconsistencies in ER calculations
• ⚠The appendix (Dec 2025) reports a total ERR of 188,574 tCO₂e, which is 28% higher than the 146,409 tCO₂e confirmed in the May 2026 verification report, creating an unresolved over-crediting question
• ⚠Crediting period is stated as 2022–2029 in the monitoring report but 2026–2030 in the validation report, creating ambiguity about the actual crediting window

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