Empowering Kenya through Positive Impact Cooking by d.light

Audit Analysis

A Gold Standard domestic cooking-efficiency project in Kenya with VVB-confirmed additionality and no material findings, but undermined by a critical unresolved contradiction in the leakage deduction (95% in the verification report versus 5% in the monitoring report, both dated October 2025). The project-specific baseline, CORSIA eligibility, and the absence of a stated buffer pool or permanence mechanism introduce moderate over-crediting and dual-channel risk. Documentation is reasonably complete across 13 sources, though medium extraction confidence and multiple unit-level inconsistencies temper confidence in the data record.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Critical leakage contradiction: the verification report (2025-10-14) states a 95% leakage deduction while the monitoring report (2025-10-13) states 5% — a 90-percentage-point discrepancy that fundamentally changes the credit volume and cannot be resolved from the available documents
• ⚠CORSIA eligibility is confirmed while CCP status is not mentioned, creating a dual-channel risk if credits are simultaneously claimed under both frameworks
• ⚠Buffer pool percentage is not stated in any available document, leaving permanence and reversal risk unquantified for the 5-year crediting period
• ⚠Baseline is project-specific rather than jurisdictional, and the last reassessment date is not found in the extracted record

Credit Vintages