Global Cookstove Program (EKI Phase 07)

Audit Analysis

A VCS cookstove project in India with VVB-confirmed additionality and a quantified 5% leakage deduction, but limited by the absence of any monitoring data, a project-specific baseline, and a low-confidence document extraction that obscures several key parameters. The project is in its first crediting period (2023–2030) and has not yet produced verified emissions reductions, so claim safety rests largely on the validation-stage assumptions.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠No monitoring report or verified ERR figure is available; the project's first monitoring period has not yet been reported, leaving all performance claims unverified.
• ⚠Low extraction confidence across the document set means several critical parameters (usage rates, baseline measurement basis, permanence buffer) could not be confirmed from the available record.
• ⚠Fifteen material findings were raised during validation, including four corrective action requests on template compliance, map accuracy, PD structure, and biomass consumption substantiation — all closed but indicative of a less-than-clean validation process.
• ⚠No buffer pool percentage is stated in the extracted record, and the non-permanence section is marked 'Not applicable,' which is reasonable for a cookstove project but leaves no explicit safety margin for cookstove replacement or abandonment.

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.