GS11935 GS11934 RVPA-06 Promoting sustainable use of biomass energy resources in targeted communities

Audit Analysis

A Gold Standard cookstove project in Nepal with VVB-confirmed additionality and a quantified 5% leakage deduction, but undermined by a critical 100-fold usage-rate contradiction between the validation report and an appendix, a retracted FPIC claim, and the absence of any stated permanence or buffer mechanism. The low extraction confidence and missing monitoring data further limit confidence in the 47,333 tCO₂e claim.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Usage rate assumed at 100% in the validation report (2024-09-27) but 1% in an appendix — a 100-fold discrepancy that, if unresolved, could mean credits are overstated by two orders of magnitude
• ⚠FPIC initially recorded as conducted in the November 2023 validation report but retracted to 'not conducted' in the September 2024 validation report
• ⚠No buffer pool, permanence mechanism, or reversal-event treatment stated in any available document
• ⚠fNRB value appears as 91.44 in the validation report but 0.9144 in the PDD (2022-05-31), suggesting a possible unit error (kg vs g per kWh)
• ⚠Minimum extraction confidence rated 'low', indicating at least one key document was poorly readable

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