GS1340 Efficient cookstoves in Burkina Faso - VPA-07 - tiipaalga F3PA cookstoves in Bam and Loroum

Audit Analysis

A Gold Standard cookstove project in Burkina Faso with VVB-confirmed additionality and a quantified 5% leakage deduction, but notable gaps in permanence treatment (reversal risk not addressed, no buffer pool), absence of a verified ERR figure to benchmark against the 82,535 tCO₂e claim, and security-related disruptions to monitoring. The project is CORSIA-eligible, introducing dual-channel risk, and several inter-document contradictions (safeguards, grievance mechanism, leakage value) reduce confidence in data consistency.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Reversal events explicitly marked as 'not addressed' in the verification report, with no buffer pool percentage stated — permanence risk is unquantified for a 10-year crediting period
• ⚠No verified ERR figure found in any document; the 82,535 tCO₂e claimed cannot be independently cross-checked against a VVB-verified number
• ⚠Security-related disruptions: 55 sampled households could not be visited and were assigned 0% usage; 2,162 households removed from the database due to stove condition; surveys delayed by 5 months
• ⚠CORSIA eligibility confirmed while CCP status is not stated — dual-channel crediting risk is not fully resolved
• ⚠Contradiction on safeguards: the verification report (May 2024) confirms safeguards and a grievance mechanism, but the monitoring report (March 2024) and the PDD (May 2022) both record them as absent

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