FCN GS PoA for Rural Communities VPA 04

Audit Analysis

A Gold Standard cookstove project in rural India with VVB-verified additionality and no reversal events, but weakened by a project-specific baseline with no documented reassessment, a thin 0% leakage justification, and multiple corrective actions raised during verification. The verified emissions reductions match the claimed figure for the current monitoring period, and the verified usage rate (83.7%) is conservative relative to the assumed 90%, supporting claim credibility.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Leakage deduction of 0% justified only as 'deemed negligible' with no quantitative analysis in a project where displaced fuel could be purchased elsewhere
• ⚠Stove quality issues (rust formation, one broken stove, one damaged stove) noted in the verification report with corrective actions still outstanding
• ⚠fNRB value changed across three verification cycles (0.90 → 0.84 → 0.612), indicating baseline parameter instability
• ⚠CORSIA eligibility and CCP status are not stated in any available document, leaving dual-channel risk unassessed

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