GS11935 GS11934 RVPA-07 Promoting sustainable use of biomass energy resources in targeted communities

Audit Analysis

This Gold Standard cookstove project in Nepal has a VVB-verified additionality assessment and a quantified 5% leakage deduction, but suffers from a critical FPIC contradiction between two validation reports, an unverified 100% usage rate assumption, no stated buffer pool for permanence, and a five-fold discrepancy in claimed emission reductions between the PDD and the validation report. The project is in its early crediting phase with no monitoring data yet available, and the low extraction confidence in the source documents limits the reliability of the extracted record.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠FPIC status contradicts between two validation reports: the 2023-11-30 report states FPIC was conducted, while the more recent 2024-09-27 report states it was not — a serious safeguards gap for a community-level cookstove project
• ⚠Claimed emission reductions differ by a factor of five between the PDD (9,466 tCO2e) and the validation report (47,333 tCO2e), with no documented reconciliation
• ⚠100% usage rate is assumed with no verified usage data or derating factor, and no monitoring period or monitoring report is available to confirm actual uptake

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