CPA-KE-012-Kenya Samsung Project

Audit Analysis

A Gold Standard household cooking-fuel efficiency project in Kenya with VVB-confirmed additionality and a quantified 5% leakage deduction, but undermined by four open corrective actions, a CDM-to-GS transfer that raises double-counting concerns, three sibling PoA projects delisted for faults, and ten material contradictions across the document set. The verified ERR figure is internally inconsistent (7.35 vs 359,719 tCO₂e across two monitoring reports), casting doubt on the reliability of the MRV record.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Three sibling projects in the same PoA (CPA-KE-008, CPA-KE-009, CPA-KE-001) were delisted due to faults identified by SustainCERT, indicating systemic quality issues in the programme.
• ⚠The project was transferred from CDM to Gold Standard and design-certified in 2024, creating a material double-counting risk if CDM credits were already issued for the same period.
• ⚠Four corrective actions (CAR 01–04) were raised during verification, and the renewal of the crediting period was blocked by non-rule-based issues raised by SustainCERT.
• ⚠The verified ERR figure is contradictory: one monitoring report (2022-10-31) records 359,719 tCO₂e while a later one (2023-08-25) records only 7.35 tCO₂e, a discrepancy of five orders of magnitude that cannot be reconciled.
• ⚠No buffer pool percentage is stated in any available document, leaving permanence risk unquantified for the crediting period.

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