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Re-assessment pendingGSEnergy Efficiency - DomesticGhanaRegistry: RegisteredAMS-II.G

GS1385 Man and Man Enterprise Improved Cooking Stoves Programme in Ghana - VPA001

Developer: Man and Man Enterprise

GS-306 ↗ · current registry ID: GS2094

#1284of 1735 in Industrial#23of 30 in Ghana#1683of 2172 in Gold Standard (GS)#296of 353 in AMS-II.G

Score from methodology v2.1 (analysis of 10 Sep 2026). Re-assessment under v2.2 pending.

Assessment

CarbonMeld document-based assessment

01020304 Overall 4.5 / 10 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%.

Re-assessment pending · v2.1

Analysis

This Gold Standard improved cooking stove project in Ghana has a verified additionality assessment and a quantified 5% leakage deduction, but is undermined by an extraordinary volume of calculation errors, parameter inconsistencies, and corrective actions spanning multiple verification cycles. The project delivered roughly 53% of its pro-rata ex-ante expectation for the 2024 monitoring period, indicating under-delivery rather than over-crediting, yet the sheer number of MRV errors raises serious questions about the reliability of the verified figures. Documentation quality is further weakened by medium extraction confidence, contradictory values across reports, and an unresolved FPIC discrepancy.

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Findings

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On this page: the analysis of 10 Sep 2026, marked “Re-assessment pending”. Per-dimension scores, risk indicators, 5 red flags, score factors, detailed analysis, and 54 registry documents (52 analyzed).

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  • Airlines (CORSIA)

    No CORSIA label on the registry

    Not usable for airlines' CORSIA obligations.

    Source: registry label

  • Integrity label (ICVCM CCP)

    Methodology not approved by ICVCMAMS-II.G

    The Integrity Council assessed this methodology as not meeting the Core Carbon Principles.

    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
2013
939639300
2014
33,77533,575200
2015
109,141109,1410
2016
138,150136,3671,783
2017
205,720205,7200
2018
253,747242,94610,801
2019
281,342281,3420
2020
358,151358,1501
2021
458,563445,86412,699
2022
757,025272,794484,231
2023
733,75934,250699,509
2024
736,17030,000706,170
Total4,066,4822,150,7881,915,694

Methodology versions used

The methodology version stated in each monitoring, verification and issuance document, by period, compared with the official methodology pages.

  1. 2013–2015AMS-II.G v5.0since replaced by v14.0

    monitoring report + verification report

    official page · verified on

  2. 2015–2016AMS-II.G v8.0since replaced by v14.0

    monitoring report + verification report

    official page · verified on

  3. 2016–2017AMS-II.G v8.0since replaced by v14.0

    monitoring report + verification report

    official page · verified on

  4. 2017–2018AMS-II.G v8.0since replaced by v14.0

    monitoring report + verification report

    official page · verified on

  5. 2018AMS-II.G v8.0since replaced by v14.0

    monitoring report + verification report

    official page · verified on

  6. 2018–2019AMS-II.G v8.0since replaced by v14.0

    monitoring report + verification report

    official page · verified on

  7. 2019–2020AMS-II.G v8.0since replaced by v14.0

    monitoring report

    official page · verified on

  8. 2019–2020AMS-II.G v8.0since replaced by v14.0

    verification report

    official page · verified on

  9. 2020–2021AMS-II.G v12.0since replaced by v14.0

    monitoring report + verification report

    official page · verified on

  10. 2021–2022AMS-II.G v12.0since replaced by v14.0

    monitoring report + verification report

    official page · verified on

  11. 2022AMS-II.G v12.0since replaced by v14.0

    monitoring report + verification report

    official page · verified on

  12. 2023ACM0006 v11.1since replaced by v16.0

    monitoring report

    official page · verified on

  13. 2023AMS-II.G v12.0since replaced by v14.0

    monitoring report + verification report

    official page · verified on

  14. 2024ACM0006 v11.1since replaced by v16.0

    monitoring report

    official page · verified on

  15. 2024AMS-II.G v12.0since replaced by v14.0

    monitoring report + verification report

    official page · verified on

  • ACM0006: Active (CDM / UNFCCC) · official page · verified on
  • AMS-II.G: Active (CDM / UNFCCC) · official page · verified on

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Analysis ProvenanceAMS-II.G. version 12.0: Energy efficiency measures in thermal applications of non-renewable biomass

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