Global Cookstove Program (EKI Phase 12)

Integrity

The verification report confirms additionality via an activity test and the VVB is identified as LGAI (Applus+) which supports baseline/additionality credibility. However, the extracted record shows no buffer pool percentage and no reversal events documented, and several material findings (missing PCP dates, unclear wood savings, fNRB calculation issues, inconsistent stove weights) directly undermine baseline validity and permanence. Leakage is said to be quantified in the verification report but the absence of an explicit leakage deduction percentage in the record weakens the integrity assessment.

Transparency

Project transparency is mixed: the monitoring period (2023-01-22 — 2023-04-30) and VVB name are present in the verification report, and the project uses VMR0006 methodology version 1.1. But essential registry/MRV outputs (total emissions reductions claimed and verified) are not present in the extracted facts, evidence document identifiers are 'unknown', and the minimum extraction confidence is medium, which reduces traceability and public verifiability.

Claim Safety

There is elevated risk of over-claiming due to contradictory fNRB method and values: one document records use of national default with fNRB ~89.2 while another shows a local-field method with fNRB reported as 0.892 in an earlier extract. These conflicts were flagged in the merged contradictions. Additionally, crediting period dates conflict across documents. Leakage is described as quantified but without a stated deduction percentage, and CORSIA/CCP status is not stated, so double-claim risk cannot be excluded. Together these issues lower claim safety.

Documentation

Documentation is moderate: a recent verification report dated 2024-10-21 and a named independent VVB are present and 12 documents were used, which is positive. However, the extracted evidence list is not specific, minimum extraction confidence is medium, and there are multiple material findings in the verification report that require clarification. No corrective actions are listed in the extracted facts, suggesting either outstanding items or incomplete extraction.

Overall

I privileged the values reported in the most recent verification report (the VVB report dated 2024-10-21) when resolving contradictions because a VVB verification report is higher priority and more recent than earlier project documents. Specifically, I used the verification-report-backed approach that reports national-default fNRB and the crediting period of 2023-01-22 — 2030-01-21. The contradictions (fNRB method/value and crediting period) indicate unreliable or inconsistent reporting across documents; this lowers the overall confidence and scores, particularly claim safety and integrity. Given documentation is above the gate threshold, no automatic transparency cap is applied; integrity is above 4 so the integrity-based overall cap is not applied either. Nonetheless, outstanding material findings, missing emissions figures, and contradictory parameter values keep the overall score in the mid-range (4.4).