GS10789 GS10790 RVPA-30 : Efficient and Clean Cooking for households in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

Audit Analysis

A very new Gold Standard cookstove project in DRC (crediting started October 2024) with VVB-verified additionality and no reversal events, but hampered by an extensive list of material findings and corrective actions, seven cross-document contradictions on key parameters (leakage, fNRB, ERR, crediting period), a 0% leakage deduction with inconsistent justification, and no verified emissions reduction figure to benchmark against the claimed 358,068 tCO₂e. The extremely short monitoring window (one month) and absence of a buffer pool limit confidence in the project's long-term integrity and claim accuracy.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Seven contradictions across documents on leakage deduction (0% vs 5%), fNRB (0.64 vs 0.7279), total ERR (358,068 vs 2,115,718), additionality test type, usage monitoring method, and crediting period dates
• ⚠0% leakage deduction in the validation report while the PDD specified 5%, with the justification shifting between 'quantified' and 'deemed negligible' across documents
• ⚠No verified emissions reduction figure available; the only monitoring period covers a single month (Dec 2024) of a five-year crediting period
• ⚠30+ material findings and 24 corrective actions flagged by the VVB, including unresolved issues on double-counting prevention, additionality at PoA level, and fNRB source citation

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.