GS1247 VPA 76 Lango Safe Water Project

Audit Analysis

The Lango Safe Water Project is a Gold Standard energy-efficiency borehole project in Uganda with VVB-verified additionality and no reported reversal events, but it is undermined by eleven cross-document contradictions, a 0% leakage deduction that conflicts with the PDD's 5% figure, an unexplained 13-fold discrepancy in claimed emissions reductions between the PDD and the monitoring report, and 23 open corrective actions. The absence of a stated buffer pool, unknown CORSIA/CCP status, and a project-specific baseline further weaken the credit's robustness.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Claimed ERR of 60,139 tCO₂e in the 2024 monitoring report versus 4,403 tCO₂e in the 2023 PDD — a 13.6× discrepancy that is not explained by scope or period differences in the available documents.
• ⚠Leakage deduction of 0% in the 2023 verification report contradicts the PDD's 5% deduction; the justification shifts from 'deemed negligible' (PDD, 2013) to 'quantified' (verification report, 2023) without a clear methodological bridge.
• ⚠FPIC status is contradictory: the 2024 monitoring report states FPIC was not conducted, while the 2025 validation report states it was — a fundamental safeguards gap that cannot be resolved from the available record.
• ⚠23 corrective actions remain open, including errors in fNRB calculations (wrong Tool 30 version), missing GPS coordinates, incorrect monitoring-period dates, and unresolved water-quality contamination at the Apuru borehole.

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