Enhancing Rural Living through Bio-Digester Project for Punjab's Household - India

Audit Analysis

A Gold Standard household biogas project in Punjab, India, using a standardised AMS methodology with VVB-confirmed additionality and a quantified 5% leakage deduction. However, the absence of a buffer pool, unaddressed reversal risk, a project-specific baseline with noted survey gaps, and a 10× unit discrepancy in the fNRB value between the validation and verification reports introduce moderate integrity and claim-safety concerns. The project delivered approximately 103% of its pro-rata ex-ante expectation for the first monitoring year, which is within acceptable variance.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠fNRB value differs by a factor of 10 between the validation report (0.95617) and the verification report (95.617), indicating a unit-conversion error in at least one document
• ⚠No buffer pool percentage is stated in any available document, and reversal events are explicitly noted as 'not addressed' in the verification report
• ⚠FAR02 flags that the baseline survey database lacks comprehensive documentation of secondary stove usage, cooking habits, and cattle ownership, weakening the project-specific baseline
• ⚠CAR02 requires the project to confirm no overlap with other programmes and provide a double-counting declaration, which had not yet been satisfied at the time of verification

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