GS11935 GS11934 RVPA-38 Promoting sustainable use of biomass energy resources in targeted communities

Audit Analysis

A Gold Standard cookstove project in Nepal using a standard simplified methodology, with VVB-confirmed additionality and a quantified 5% leakage deduction. However, the absence of a stated buffer pool, a contradiction on whether FPIC was conducted, and the lack of any monitoring-period data limit confidence in the project's long-term integrity and transparency. The ERR figures across documents are most likely an annual-versus-lifetime discrepancy (9,466 × 5 ≈ 47,333), which mitigates the apparent contradiction but still warrants clarification.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠FPIC status is contradictory: the 2023-11-30 validation report states FPIC was conducted, while the more recent 2024-09-27 validation report states it was not — the more recent document is privileged, leaving a safeguards gap
• ⚠No monitoring report or monitoring period is present in the extracted record; the verified ERR figure (47,333 tCO2e) appears to be the ex-ante validation figure rather than a post-implementation measurement
• ⚠Minimum extraction confidence is rated low, indicating at least one key document was poorly readable, reducing reliability of the extracted data

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