Enkima stoves

Audit Analysis

The Enkima Stoves project (Gold Standard, Kenya) has a well-established additionality case confirmed by KBS Certification Services and a quantified 5% leakage deduction, but is significantly under-delivering relative to its ex-ante estimates due to poor uptake of the initial Hifadhi stove design. Multiple corrective actions and conditions of listing remain open, and the verified usage rate (29.1% overall) is far below the 95% assumed at validation, raising questions about the robustness of the original monitoring plan. The project adapted by introducing Sunken stoves with 90% usage, and is reporting actual (lower) emissions, which limits over-crediting risk.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Verified overall usage rate of 29.1% (monitoring report, 2025) is roughly one-third of the 95% assumed at validation, indicating the ex-ante monitoring plan was significantly mis-specified
• ⚠Multiple open corrective actions (CAR 01–05) and conditions of listing (CL 01–02) remain unresolved, including the need to conduct a pKPT for both stove models and submit a deviation request for delayed monitoring
• ⚠Total verified ERR figure is not stated in the extracted record; only the claimed figure of 56,041 tCO₂e for the monitoring period is available, making independent verification of the credit quantity impossible from the available documents
• ⚠The verification report (2026) marks reversal events as 'not addressed' while the monitoring report (2025) states none were reported — the topic was not explicitly evaluated in the verification

Credit Vintages