GS11935 GS11934 RVPA-34 Promoting sustainable use of biomass energy resources in targeted communities

Audit Analysis

A Gold Standard cookstove project in Nepal with VVB-confirmed additionality and a quantified 5% leakage deduction, but significant gaps in permanence safeguards (no buffer pool, reversal events unaddressed), an aggressive 100% usage-rate assumption, and multiple cross-document contradictions in key parameters. The low extraction confidence and absence of a monitoring report limit confidence in the overall data picture.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Usage rate assumed at 100% in the validation report, with a contradictory value of 1 in an undated source — an aggressive assumption that inflates claimed reductions if actual adoption or usage is lower
• ⚠Reversal events are explicitly 'not addressed' and no buffer pool percentage is stated, leaving permanence risk unquantified for a project where stoves can be replaced or fall out of use
• ⚠Total ERR discrepancy: 46,386 tCO2e in the validation report vs 51,404 in an undated source — a ~10% gap that is unexplained
• ⚠fNRB value appears as 91.44 in the validation report and 0.9144 in the PDD — a factor-of-100 difference that is likely a unit error but undermines data reliability
• ⚠Min extraction confidence is rated 'low', indicating at least one key document was poorly readable, reducing trust in the extracted figures

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