GS11935 GS11934 RVPA-57 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 undermined by the absence of a buffer pool, unverified 100% usage rate, a significant ERR discrepancy between the PDD and validation report, and six open corrective actions. The most recent validation report indicates FPIC was not conducted, raising safeguards concerns. Overall, the project shows moderate design quality with notable gaps in permanence protection and claim verification.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠ERR discrepancy: the PDD (2024-09-13) reports 9,228 tCO2e while the validation report (2024-09-27) reports 46,143 tCO2e — a five-fold difference that is not explained in the extracted record
• ⚠FPIC is recorded as not conducted in the most recent validation report (2024-09-27), contradicting an earlier validation report (2023-11-30) that recorded it as conducted
• ⚠Six corrective actions remain open, including the need to demonstrate no double counting and to verify the relevance of a 2010 baseline survey for firewood consumption
• ⚠Usage rate is assumed at 100% with no verified usage data or end-use tracking method documented

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