Household Energy Efficiency Programme

Audit Analysis

A VCS cookstove project (VM0007) in India with VVB-verified additionality and a quantified 5% leakage deduction, but undermined by six material findings that required corrections to the ER calculation, baseline, and additionality method. The first monitoring period delivered only about 7% of the pro-rata expectation, and the more recent validation report contradicts the monitoring report on FPIC, grievance mechanism, benefit sharing, and safeguards (all recorded as absent). Multiple cross-document contradictions and a pending corrective action on cookstove life span leave meaningful uncertainty about the robustness of the credit claims.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠First monitoring period verified only 43,122 tCO2e against a pro-rata expectation of roughly 617,000 tCO2e (~7% delivery), suggesting the lifetime claim of 7.81 million tCO2e may be substantially overstated.
• ⚠Six material findings (CAR 01–02, CL 01–04) required corrections to the project start date, additionality method, thermal efficiency data, ER calculation, and baseline wood-consumption assumptions, indicating the initial PDD contained material errors.
• ⚠The validation report (Jan 2023) records FPIC, grievance mechanism, benefit sharing, and safeguards as absent, directly contradicting the monitoring report (Nov 2022) which records all four as present.
• ⚠One corrective action (verify cookstove life span during first verification) remains open, leaving a key permanence/avoidance assumption unconfirmed.

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.