GS11935 GS11934 RVPA-24 Promoting sustainable use of biomass energy resources in targeted communities

Audit Analysis

A Gold Standard cookstove project in Nepal with verified additionality and quantified leakage, but significant gaps in permanence safeguards (no buffer pool or reversal data), an unverified 100% usage rate assumption, and a five-fold discrepancy in claimed emissions reductions between the PDD and validation report. The project relies on a 2010 baseline survey and lacks a monitoring report, limiting confidence in the claimed figures.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Five-fold discrepancy in total ERR between the PDD (9,424 tCO2e) and the validation report (47,120 tCO2e) — the validation report value is privileged as the more recent and authoritative document, but the gap raises data-reliability concerns
• ⚠No buffer pool or permanence mechanism stated in any available document, leaving reversal risk unaddressed for a 5-year crediting period
• ⚠Baseline survey data dates from 2010 (flagged in FAR 4), raising questions about the currency and representativeness of the project-specific baseline
• ⚠100% usage rate assumed with no verified usage data available (usage_rate_verified not stated in any document)
• ⚠No monitoring report or monitoring period found in the extracted record — all ERR figures derive from the validation report only

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