GS10789 VPA71: Efficient and Clean Cooking for households in Ghana

Audit Analysis

This Gold Standard improved-cookstove project in Ghana has a VVB-confirmed additionality assessment, no reversal events, and a quantified 5% leakage deduction, but is held back by a project-specific baseline, the absence of a stated buffer pool, a significant fNRB revision (from ~90% to 35%), and an unusually large volume of material findings and corrective actions across multiple verification cycles. The project is CCP-eligible and CORSIA status is not stated, leaving dual-channel risk partially unresolved.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠fNRB value revised from 89.88% to 35% between the April 2025 and November 2025 verification reports, materially altering the credit calculation; the revision was driven by CCP compliance requirements (CDM Tool 33 v3.0), raising questions about the robustness of the original baseline quantification
• ⚠No buffer pool percentage is stated in any available document, leaving permanence risk (stove damage, replacement, parallel use of baseline stoves) unmitigated by a quantitative safeguard
• ⚠The validation report (Aug 2025) lists a total ERR of 358,068 tCO₂e while the November 2025 verification report reports 28,294 tCO₂e for the same VPA; if these refer to the same scope, the project delivered only ~21% of the pro-rata expectation for the elapsed monitoring period
• ⚠28 distinct corrective actions remain on the record, spanning additionality demonstration, SDG impact alignment, double-counting prevention, and VPA boundary definition, indicating persistent documentation and methodology gaps

Credit Vintages