Dissemination of TLUD improved cook stoves in the Sundarbans, India
GS-171 ↗ · current registry ID: GS1296
#178of 202 in Industrial#354of 387 in India#406of 426 in Gold Standard (GS)#43of 46 in AMS-II.G
Audit Analysis
This Gold Standard improved cook stove project in the Sundarbans faces significant data-quality and design-integrity concerns. The verification body issued four material corrective action requests and eleven comments, revealing inconsistencies in vintage details, geo-coordinates, GWP values, and units across the monitoring and verification reports. While safeguards (FPIC, grievance mechanism) are documented, the absence of a buffer pool, unaddressed reversal risk from charcoal production, and contradictory leakage and usage-rate figures across documents raise substantial over-crediting and permanence concerns.
Red Flags
- Four material corrective action requests (CARs) issued by the VVB covering incorrect vintage details, inconsistent geo-coordinates with the PDD, missing ex-ante parameters, and incorrect GWP/CH4 values — indicating systemic data-quality failures in the monitoring and ER calculations
- Reversal events explicitly 'not addressed' in the verification report, with methane generation in traditional charcoal production (the baseline scenario) excluded from the analysis, and no buffer pool percentage stated
- Usage rate verified at 0.266 in the 2023 monitoring report versus 0.967 in the 2015 monitoring report — a 3.6× discrepancy that, if the higher historical value was used in ex-ante estimates, would indicate significant over-crediting
- Leakage deduction contradicts across documents: 0% in the 2022 verification report versus 5% in the 2024 monitoring report, with the justification shifting from 'not addressed' to 'quantified' between the 2023 and 2024 verification reports
- Eighteen corrective actions and comments required, including missing credit-ownership transfer agreements signed by beneficiaries and unclarified project start date
Credit Vintages
| Issued | Retired | Available | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 66 | 66 | 0 | |
| 2013 | 5,174 | 5,174 | 0 | |
| 2014 | 9,487 | 9,487 | 0 | |
| 2015 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 0 | |
| 2016 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 0 | |
| 2017 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 0 | |
| 2018 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 0 | |
| 2019 | 9,999 | 9,999 | 0 | |
| 2020 | 9,043 | 8,880 | 163 | |
| 2021 | 10,761 | 153 | 10,608 | |
| 2022 | 10,000 | 0 | 10,000 | |
| 2023 | 10,000 | 0 | 10,000 | |
| Total | 104,530 | 73,759 | 30,771 |
Risk Indicators
Investment test present; VVB confirmation not stated in extr
No buffer pool stated; reversal risk (charcoal methane) expl
Contradictory deductions (0% vs 5%); justification inconsist
Project-specific baseline; no reassessment date stated in av
FPIC conducted, grievance mechanism in place, safeguards doc
CORSIA eligibility not stated; CCP status not mentioned in a
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