Global Cookstove Program (Phase 24)

Audit Analysis

The Global Cookstove Program (Phase 24) is a VCS-registered cookstove project in India at the validation stage, with additionality confirmed by Applus+ Certification via a combined test and a quantified 5% leakage deduction. However, the absence of a buffer pool, project-specific baseline, unresolved corrective actions (8 items), and low document extraction confidence limit confidence in the project's long-term integrity and data reliability. No monitoring data exists yet, so the 48,690 claimed ERRs remain unverified.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠No buffer pool percentage stated in any available document, leaving permanence risk unaddressed for a cookstove project where device failure or abandonment is a realistic reversal pathway
• ⚠Eight corrective actions required by the VVB, including use of an outdated fNRB tool version and unsupported biomass consumption values, indicating the validation was not clean
• ⚠Low extraction confidence across the document set, meaning key parameters may be misread or missing from the record
• ⚠Reversal events marked as 'not_addressed' in the merged record despite the validation report stating 'Not applicable' — the treatment is ambiguous

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.