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ScoredGSEnergy Efficiency - DomesticRwandaRegistry: RegisteredGeneral Methodologyv2.1

GS1247 VPA 18 Improved Kitchen Regimes Bugesera, Rwanda

Developer: CO2balance UK ltd

GS-596 ↗ · current registry ID: GS3451

#1492of 1570 in Industrial#123of 131 in Rwanda#1993of 2078 in Gold Standard (GS)

Assessment

CarbonMeld document-based assessment

01020304 Overall 3.5 / 10
Integrity 🔒 Transparency 🔒 Claim Safety 🔒 Documentation 🔒
Dimension scores are locked — the faint arcs are empty tracks, not zero scores.

Scale 0–10 · method weights: integrity 35% · transparency 25% · claim safety 25% · documentation 15%.

Scored2026-09-03high confidence

evidence:27/29registry documents analyzed · 4red flags

Generated by CarbonMeld Analysis Pipeline · Methodology · Editorial Policy · About the System
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Analysis

This Gold Standard cookstove project in Rwanda has a verified additionality assessment and documented safeguards, but is undermined by a severe usage-rate shortfall (verified 23.3% versus 90% assumed), a 0% leakage deduction that contradicts the PDD's planned 5%, the absence of any verified ERR figure, and twelve cross-document contradictions spanning leakage, fNRB, crediting period, and benefit-sharing. The extensive list of open corrective actions and findings indicates the project's monitoring and reporting framework has not yet matured to a reliable standard.

Red Flags

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Findings

Risk Indicators

Additionality

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Permanence

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Leakage

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Baseline

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Safeguards

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Double-claim

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Evidence

Eligibility & market

What can you claim with this credit?

Four checks buyers ask about, from the registry and the Integrity Council (ICVCM).

  • Airlines (CORSIA)

    No CORSIA label on the registry

    Not usable for airlines' CORSIA obligations.

    Source: registry label

  • Integrity label (ICVCM CCP)

    Methodology approved by ICVCMGS TPDDTEC

    The methodology meets the Core Carbon Principles; this project's credits do not carry the CCP label yet.

    Source: ICVCM assessment

  • Removal or reduction

    Emission reduction or avoidance

    Prevents or reduces emissions — fits contribution claims, not SBTi neutralisation.

    Source: registry label

  • Paris Agreement (Article 6)

    Not published

    This registry does not publish Article 6 authorizations.

Information only, from public sources. Claim rules (CORSIA, SBTi, EU rules on green claims) change: check them before making a public claim. Since 27 September 2026, EU consumer rules do not allow “climate neutral” product claims based on offsets.

Registry labels last checked:2026-09-27

Credit Vintages

IssuedRetiredAvailable
2014
1081080
2015
9,7039,561142
2016
10,00010,0000
2017
9,8669,83630
2018
8,8108,634176
2019
6,1316,017114
2020
2,2442,2404
2021
1,2121,2120
Total48,07447,608466

Retired by

Organisations named as beneficiaries in the registry's public retirement records.

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Analysis ProvenanceGeneral Methodologyv2.1
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