GS11935 GS11934 RVPA-50 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 significant concerns arise from a 3.2× over-delivery relative to the pro-rata ex-ante expectation, a project-specific baseline with no stated reassessment date, and multiple unit/value inconsistencies across documents. The project is functional but carries moderate over-crediting risk and documentation quality issues.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Verified ERR of 30,997 tCO₂e for the 2024 monitoring period is approximately 320% of the pro-rata expectation (~9,674 tCO₂e) derived from the validation report's lifetime estimate of 48,371 tCO₂e over the 5-year crediting period — a 3.2× over-delivery that warrants scrutiny of the ex-ante assumptions or the monitoring calculation.
• ⚠Five Corrective Action Requests (CARs) were raised during verification, including unclear leakage calculation in the ER sheet, an incorrectly signed SDG 13 baseline, and a monitoring-period date inconsistency — all closed but indicative of calculation and reporting weaknesses.
• ⚠No buffer pool percentage is stated in any available document, and the baseline last reassessment date is not found in the extracted record, leaving permanence and baseline currency unconfirmed.
• ⚠fNRB value appears as 91.44 in the verification report but 0.9144 in the monitoring report — a unit inconsistency (gCO₂e/kWh vs kgCO₂e/kWh) that, if unresolved, could lead to a 100× error in emission calculations.

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