EASY BREATHE INDIA SMART COOKSTOVE PROGRAM

Audit Analysis

A VCS cookstove project in India with a verified investment-test additionality assessment and a quantified 5% leakage deduction, but limited by a project-specific baseline, an unstated buffer pool, and the absence of any monitoring-period data to verify claimed emissions reductions. The validation report (April 2025) resolved eight corrective action requests and seven clarification requests, including a significant fNRB boundary correction, but the 11.6% discrepancy between the PDD and validation-report ERR figures and the lack of verified usage data leave residual over-crediting risk.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠ERR lifetime figure differs by 11.6% between the PDD (10,788 tCO₂e, April 2024) and the validation report (12,041 tCO₂e, April 2025); the higher validation-report value is privileged as the more recent and authoritative document, but the gap warrants scrutiny of the fNRB update (FSI 2021 data).
• ⚠No monitoring-period data or verified ERR figure is available; the project has been registered since May 2023 but no monitoring report appears in the extracted record, so all claims remain unverified.

Credit Vintages

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