GS11935 GS11934 RVPA-43 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 risk unaddressed), a contradictory FPIC record, and no monitoring data available to verify delivery. The 100% usage rate assumption and project-specific baseline introduce moderate over-crediting risk.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠FPIC status is contradictory: the 2024 validation report states FPIC was not conducted, while an earlier 2023 validation report indicated it was — the more recent document is privileged, leaving a safeguards gap
• ⚠No buffer pool percentage is stated and reversal events are explicitly 'not addressed', leaving permanence risk unmitigated for a 5-year crediting period
• ⚠Usage rate is assumed at 100% with no verified usage rate available, and the monitoring period is not stated in any extracted document
• ⚠FAR 4 flags that the baseline survey for firewood consumption dates from 2010, raising questions about baseline currency
• ⚠Low extraction confidence across the document set limits reliability of the extracted record

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