GS11935 GS11934 RVPA-27 Promoting sustainable use of biomass energy resources in targeted communities

Audit Analysis

A Gold Standard cookstove project in Nepal with VVB-verified additionality and a quantified 5% leakage deduction, but undermined by a 2010-era baseline survey, an unaddressed 100% usage-rate assumption, six unresolved Forward Action Requests (including double-counting and grievance-mechanism concerns), and low extraction confidence across the document set. The project is functional but carries moderate over-crediting and documentation risks that should be resolved before credits are retired.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠FAR 4 (unresolved): the baseline survey for firewood consumption dates to 2010, making it over 14 years old at validation and potentially unrepresentative of current consumption patterns.
• ⚠FAR 3 (unresolved): the project has not yet demonstrated the absence of double counting or misestimation of impacts, and the official declaration regarding inclusion in other emission-trading programs (CL 8) was only a clarification request.
• ⚠Usage rate assumed at 100% with no verified usage-rate figure in the extracted record; the contradiction with a value of 1 from an unidentified document is unexplained.
• ⚠Six Forward Action Requests remain open at the time of the validation report, including procedural gaps (micro-scale eligibility, PoA start-date evidence) and a grievance-mechanism location uncertainty (FAR 6).
• ⚠min_extraction_confidence is rated low, indicating at least one key document was poorly readable, which limits confidence in the completeness of the extracted record.

Credit Vintages