GS11935 GS11934 RVPA-23 Promoting sustainable use of biomass energy resources in targeted communities

Audit Analysis

A Gold Standard cookstove project in Nepal with a solid combined additionality test verified by the VVB and a quantified 5% leakage deduction, but undermined by a 13-year-old baseline survey (2010) that was specifically flagged by the CME, no documented reversal or permanence protection, and the absence of any monitoring-period data to verify the 47,333 tCO2e ex-ante estimate. Multiple contradictions between the PDD and validation report, combined with low extraction confidence, reduce confidence in the overall data quality.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Baseline survey conducted in 2010 for a project with a 2023 crediting start — the CME explicitly raised FAR 4 questioning the relevance of this 13-year-old survey for firewood consumption
• ⚠Reversal events are listed as 'not addressed' and no buffer pool percentage is stated, leaving cookstove breakage/abandonment risk unmitigated
• ⚠Low extraction confidence across the document set, with at least one source document identified only as 'unknown'
• ⚠No monitoring-period data or monitoring report is available; the claimed and verified ERR figures are identical (47,333 tCO2e), indicating the ex-ante estimate has not yet been independently verified against field data

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