GS10818 - Dissemination of Improved Cookstoves in India by Greenway - Dissemination of Improved Cookstoves in Karnataka by Greenway - VPA006

Audit Analysis

This Gold Standard cookstove project in Karnataka has VVB-confirmed additionality and a quantified 5% leakage deduction, but is undermined by an extreme volume of material findings (60+) and corrective actions (70+), a 16.7% usage-rate overestimation, no documented buffer pool or permanence mechanism, and critical missing documentation including double-counting prevention and device life-span evidence. The project's documentation quality is severely deficient, and the over-crediting risk from the usage-rate gap is material.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Usage rate assumed at 100% in the PDD but verified at only 85.7% in the monitoring report, implying a ~17% over-crediting of emission reductions
• ⚠No buffer pool, permanence mechanism, or reversal-risk mitigation documented in any available report
• ⚠Over 60 material findings and 70+ corrective actions logged in the verification report, including a prior-period ER underestimation of 84,592 tCO2e
• ⚠Double-counting prevention framework and baseline database evidence explicitly missing per corrective actions
• ⚠Device life-span evidence and loss-of-efficiency accounting not provided, leaving permanence of reductions unverified

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