GS1729 - Myanmar Stoves Campaign - Soneva in Myanmar - VPA No. 006

Audit Analysis

A Gold Standard cookstove project in Myanmar with VVB-confirmed additionality and a quantified 5% leakage deduction, but significant concerns around permanence (no buffer pool, reversal events unaddressed) and a large gap between the assumed 100% usage rate and the 60.4% verified in the 2020 monitoring report. Multiple contradictions across documents on ERR figures, usage rates, and crediting period dates reduce confidence in the data record.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Usage rate assumed at 100% in the PDD but verified at only 60.4% in the 2020 monitoring report, a 40-percentage-point gap that signals potential over-crediting if not fully adjusted in claimed ERR
• ⚠Reversal events are explicitly 'not addressed' and no buffer pool percentage is stated, leaving permanence risk for cookstove replacement or abandonment unmitigated
• ⚠The lifetime ex-ante ERR differs by 28% between the PDD (66,227 tCO₂e) and the 2018 monitoring report (47,584 tCO₂e), and the claimed ERR dropped from 7,564 to 3,249 tCO₂e between the 2019 and 2020 monitoring reports, indicating declining project performance
• ⚠Crediting period is stated as open-ended ('2016-05-01 — null') in the 2018 verification report but as '2022-03-08 to 2027-03-07' in the 2023 validation report, creating ambiguity about which period governs

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