Global Cookstove Program (EKI Phase 05)

Integrity

The verification report dated 2024-10-21 confirms additionality through an activity-method approach and says there were no material findings or corrective actions required. At the same time, leakage is explicitly not addressed, no leakage deduction is stated, and buffer pool or reversal information is not found in the extracted record, which weakens the permanence/leakage side of integrity.

Transparency

Transparency is moderate because the project has a named VVB, a clear monitoring period, and a recent verification report. But the extracted record does not state total claimed versus verified emission reductions, and verified usage rates are also missing, so the MRV trail is incomplete.

Claim Safety

Claim safety is constrained by the unresolved leakage treatment and the absence of verified usage-rate data. The local-field non-renewable biomass fraction of 0.8185 supports a more tailored baseline input, but the baseline remains project-specific and not shown as recently reassessed, which leaves over-crediting risk above average.

Documentation

Documentation is fair but not strong: eleven documents were used, and the verification report is recent and clean on findings. Still, the extraction confidence is only medium, and several important fields are missing, including buffer pool details, reversal events, and verified emissions figures.

Overall

I privileged the 2024 verification report over the earlier 2022/2024 conflicting dates because it is the most recent and appears to be the authoritative verification source. The contradiction on the crediting period is a reliability concern, so I discounted documentation and transparency slightly; I also treated leakage as unresolved because one record says it is not addressed while another earlier document reportedly quantified it. Under the gate rules, the integrity score remains above 4.0, so no overall cap is triggered, but the project still lands in the mid-range due to missing MRV detail and unresolved leakage/baseline clarity.