Eastern DRC Cookstove Project - South Kivu

Audit Analysis

The Eastern DRC Cookstove Project demonstrates solid additionality (VVB-confirmed investment test) and no reversal events, but is held back by a project-specific baseline with no stated reassessment date, a contradictory and ultimately missing leakage justification, and multiple cross-document discrepancies in ERR figures and crediting period dates. The 97.5% verified-to-claimed ratio for the 2023 monitoring period is reassuring, yet the absence of a buffer pool, unverified usage rates, and unknown CORSIA/CCP status leave moderate over-crediting and double-claiming risk.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Leakage justification is contradictory: the 2023-10-13 verification report states leakage was 'quantified,' but the later 2024-04-11 verification report records it as 'not_addressed' despite a 5% deduction being applied
• ⚠Two different total ERR verified figures appear (661,779 in the 2024-04-11 verification report vs 422,148 in the 2023-12-08 monitoring report), a 57% gap that is not explained in the extracted record
• ⚠Crediting period dates differ between the PDD (2020-02-01 to 2027-01-31) and the verification report (2020-06-10 to 2027-06-09), creating ambiguity about the exact project duration
• ⚠Buffer pool percentage is not stated in any available document, leaving permanence risk unquantified
• ⚠Feedstock (wood) sustainability is not addressed in the extracted record for a project whose entire credit claim depends on displaced firewood

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