CPA-KE-010-Kenya Samsung Mombasa Project

Audit Analysis

The Samsung Mombasa improved-cookstove project has a VVB-verified additionality assessment and a quantified 5% leakage deduction, but is undermined by an extensive list of corrective actions and clarifications, a fundamental fuel-classification issue flagged by the VVB, and a five-fold discrepancy between the PDD's ex-ante estimate and the monitoring report's verified figure. The absence of a stated buffer pool and unaddressed reversal risk further weaken the integrity profile.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠The PDD estimates 21,451 tCO₂e for the crediting period while the monitoring report reports 107,256 tCO₂e — a roughly 5× discrepancy that raises serious over-crediting concerns.
• ⚠The VVB flagged that 'non-renewable fuel cannot be considered as fossil fuel under this methodology,' calling into question the baseline emission factor and the validity of the ERR calculation.
• ⚠No buffer pool percentage is stated in any available document, and reversal events are explicitly noted as 'not addressed,' leaving permanence risk unmitigated.
• ⚠A deviation request was not approved by Gold Standard, yet the project proceeded, creating a compliance gap.
• ⚠Twenty-plus corrective actions and clarification requests were raised by the VVB, including missing LSC details, incomplete baseline survey documentation, and unexplained efficiency assumptions.

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