GS2449 GS1265 African Biomass Energy Conservation PoA Rwanda Biomass Conservation (4)

Audit Analysis

This Gold Standard biomass energy-efficiency PoA in Rwanda has a VVB-verified combined additionality test and a 10% leakage deduction, but is undermined by ten cross-document contradictions, six corrective actions requiring usage-rate caps and conservativeness corrections, and a project-specific baseline with no stated reassessment date. The volume of discrepancies—particularly in FNRB values, ERR figures, and the crediting period—raises material concerns about the reliability of the underlying data.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Six corrective actions require applying an additional 10% conservativeness factor to the usage rate and capping it at 80%, indicating the original verification over-credited emissions reductions
• ⚠FNRB value contradicts between 0.98 (2014 monitoring report) and 0.81 (2017 appendix); the lower value is more conservative and should be privileged
• ⚠Crediting period is stated as 1 year (2013–2014, monitoring report) versus 28 years (2012–2040, 2024 validation report), a fundamental structural inconsistency
• ⚠Leakage is quantified at 10% in the PDD but simultaneously justified as 'deemed negligible' in the 2014 monitoring report, an internally inconsistent treatment
• ⚠Total ERR claimed of 386,180 tCO₂e (appendix, 2017) versus 8,564 tCO₂e (monitoring report, 2014) spans a 45× range; while likely on different bases (lifetime vs. single period), the absence of a verified ERR figure prevents reconciliation

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