DISTRIBUTION OF FUEL EFFICIENT IMPROVED COOKSTOVES IN INDIA

Audit Analysis

A VCS-registered cookstove distribution project in India with a VVB-confirmed combined additionality test and a quantified 5% leakage deduction. The project inherently carries low permanence risk as an emissions-avoidance activity, but two material contradictions between the PDD and validation/monitoring reports (total ERR and fNRB method) introduce uncertainty into the credit quantity and calculation basis. The verified ERR for the first monitoring period equals the full ex-ante estimate, a ratio that warrants scrutiny.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠The verified ERR for the 17-month monitoring period (147,672 tCO2e) equals the entire 7-year ex-ante estimate, implying the project delivered roughly 494% of the pro-rata expectation — a ratio that is either a reporting artefact or indicates the ex-ante estimate was set extremely conservatively.
• ⚠The PDD states a local-field fNRB method while the monitoring report (2022) and validation report (2024) both cite a national-default fNRB of 0.846; the basis for the fuel net replacement benefit is therefore inconsistent across documents.
• ⚠The PDD ex-ante ERR of 713,197 tCO2e is nearly five times the 147,672 tCO2e registered in the validation report, and no document explains the revision.

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.