GLOBAL COOKSTOVE PROGRAM (EKI - Pink City)

Audit Analysis

The Global Cookstove Program (EKI – Pink City) is a VCS-registered cookstove project with VVB-confirmed additionality and a quantified 5% leakage deduction, but it carries significant data-reliability concerns: three cross-document contradictions (including a 24× discrepancy in claimed ERR), seven unresolved corrective actions, and a null verified-ERR figure that prevents any delivery check. The project is very early in its 7-year crediting period (only ~5 months of monitoring), and the absence of buffer-pool or permanence data for a cookstove project is a notable gap.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠24× discrepancy in total ERR between the PDD (68,477 tCO₂e, June 2024) and an unidentified earlier document (1,622,675 tCO₂e, May 2023) — the source and basis of the larger figure are unexplained
• ⚠Seven corrective actions remain open, including database anomalies where multiple entries appear to belong to the same beneficiary, undermining unique-stove identification
• ⚠Total verified ERR is not available in the extracted record, making it impossible to confirm whether the project is delivering on its ex-ante estimate
• ⚠fNRB calculation method changed between the PDD (national default) and the verification report (state-level), and the VVB has not yet received the final fNRB calculation sheet

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.