GS11935 GS11934 RVPA-29 Promoting sustainable use of biomass energy resources in targeted communities

Audit Analysis

A Gold Standard cookstove project in Nepal with a VVB-verified combined additionality test and a quantified 5% leakage deduction, but weakened by the absence of a buffer pool, unaddressed reversal risk, a project-specific baseline, and a usage-rate figure that appears inconsistent across documents (likely a unit discrepancy). The low extraction confidence and several open FARs at validation suggest documentation gaps that limit confidence in the full MRV chain.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Usage rate assumed at 100% in the validation report but recorded as 1 in the appendix — likely a unit inconsistency (100% vs 1.0 fraction) but unconfirmed, creating ambiguity in the substitution assumption
• ⚠No buffer pool percentage stated and reversal events explicitly 'not addressed' in the validation report, leaving permanence risk unquantified for a 5-year crediting period
• ⚠FPIC status contradicts between the validation report (conducted) and the PDD (not conducted); the more recent validation report is privileged but the discrepancy undermines safeguards confidence
• ⚠Low extraction confidence across the document set, meaning at least one key document was poorly readable and some facts may be incomplete

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