GS1247 VPA 127 Southern Ethiopia Community Boreholes
GS-1420 ↗ · current registry ID: GS6037
#118of 1329 in Industrial#2of 36 in Ethiopia#234of 1801 in Gold Standard (GS)
Audit Analysis
A Gold Standard community borehole project in Southern Ethiopia with VVB-verified additionality and no outstanding corrective actions, but weakened by the absence of a stated buffer pool, contradictory leakage justifications across documents, and a missing verified ERR figure that prevents independent over-crediting assessment. The project's safeguards (FPIC, grievance mechanism, benefit sharing) are documented, and the 2024 monitoring report confirms no reversal events, but the record contains multiple inter-document inconsistencies that reduce confidence in the underlying data.
Red Flags
- Leakage justification is contradictory: the 2018 verification report describes it as 'quantified' while the 2020 monitoring report characterises it as 'deemed negligible', yet the deduction is 0% in both cases
- Total ERR verified is not stated in any available document, making it impossible to independently confirm whether claimed reductions (96,198 tCO2e) were actually achieved
- FNRB method is inconsistent across documents: the 2018 verification report cites a national default while the 2025 validation report references a local field measurement, raising questions about which value (0.88) is actually applied
Credit Vintages
| Issued | Retired | Available | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 4,871 | 4,871 | 0 | |
| 2018 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 0 | |
| 2019 | 4,662 | 4,662 | 0 | |
| 2020 | 5,012 | 5,012 | 0 | |
| 2021 | 2,918 | 2,888 | 30 | |
| 2022 | 1,927 | 447 | 1,480 | |
| 2023 | 438 | 0 | 438 | |
| Total | 29,828 | 27,880 | 1,948 |
Risk Indicators
VVB-verified combined test
no reversals reported
0% deduction with contradictory justification
Project-specific; reassessed 2024
FPIC, grievance mechanism, benefit sharing documented
CCP and CORSIA status not stated
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