GS5562 VPA 2: Efficient and Clean Cooking for Mozambican Low-Income Households

Audit Analysis

This Gold Standard clean-cooking project in Mozambique has the basic structural elements (combined additionality test, quantified 5% leakage deduction, named VVB) but is undermined by extensive compliance findings, a project-specific baseline with no reassessment record, absence of FPIC for a low-income household project, and a fundamental mismatch between the monitoring period (2021–2023) and the crediting period (2023–2028). The verified ERRs represent only about 3% of the pro-rata lifetime expectation, and multiple contradictions across documents raise data-reliability concerns.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Monitoring period (Feb 2021 – Mar 2023) largely precedes the crediting period (Feb 2023 – Feb 2028); only ~1.5 months of overlap, raising structural over-crediting risk
• ⚠FPIC was not conducted despite the project targeting low-income Mozambican households
• ⚠Extensive material findings include GS compliance violations, rejection of retroactive crediting, loss of ERRs (Mar 2019 – Apr 2021), and multiple unresolved CARs
• ⚠Verified ERRs (70,285) represent only ~3% of the pro-rata lifetime expectation (~2.2 million tCO₂e) for the elapsed monitoring period

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.