Healthy cooking initiative for Tea Estate Workers of Nepal

Audit Analysis

A Gold Standard cookstove efficiency project for tea estate workers in Nepal with a VVB-verified combined additionality test and reasonable pro-rata delivery (96% of expectation), but weakened by a project-specific baseline, a 0% leakage deduction justified only as 'quantified,' absence of FPIC, and eight corrective action requests from the VVB. Multiple unit-conversion inconsistencies across documents reduce confidence in data consistency.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Leakage deduction of 0% with justification described only as 'quantified' — no explicit quantification or threshold shown in the extracted record
• ⚠FPIC not conducted for a project targeting tea estate workers (potentially vulnerable population)
• ⚠Claimed ERR of 12,459 tCO2e exceeds the pro-rata expectation of ~9,697 tCO2e by ~28%, while the VVB verified only 9,292 tCO2e
• ⚠Eight corrective action requests (CARs) raised by the VVB, including missing project boundary, missing sampling details, and missing overlap analysis with other projects
• ⚠CORSIA eligibility and CCP status not stated in any available document

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