GS11935 GS11934 RVPA-54 Promoting sustainable use of biomass energy resources in targeted communities

Audit Analysis

A Gold Standard cookstove efficiency project in Nepal with VVB-confirmed additionality and a quantified 5% leakage deduction, but undermined by a project-specific baseline with no reassessment record, unaddressed permanence/reversal risk, and significant contradictions in key parameters (usage rate, fNRB, FPIC status). The 100% assumed usage rate and identical claimed/verified ERR figures raise over-crediting concerns, while low extraction confidence and multiple forward action requests indicate documentation gaps.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Usage rate contradiction: validation report states 100% assumed usage while an appendix states 1% — a 100× discrepancy that directly affects credit quantity
• ⚠fNRB value contradiction: validation report lists 91.44 while the PDD lists 0.9144 — likely a unit or decimal error that could inflate or deflate credits by 100×
• ⚠FPIC contradiction: validation report confirms FPIC was conducted, but the PDD (dated 2024-09-13) states it was not — a fundamental safeguards discrepancy
• ⚠Permanence and reversal risk explicitly 'not addressed' in available documents, with no buffer pool percentage stated
• ⚠Total ERR claimed and verified are identical (47,333 tCO2e), with no independent monitoring-period verification apparent

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