Installation of high efficiency wood burning cookstoves in Angola

Audit Analysis

The project demonstrates solid additionality (combined test confirmed by the VVB) and a quantified 5% leakage deduction, but suffers from a severe under-delivery relative to its ex-ante estimate and a questionable permanence claim for a cookstove project with no buffer pool. The massive gap between the lifetime ex-ante figure in the validation report and the verified monitoring-period figure raises serious over-crediting concerns at the ex-ante stage.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Verified ERR of 11,058 tCO2e represents only ~0.7% of the pro-rata expectation (~1.58M tCO2e) derived from the validation report's lifetime ex-ante estimate of 13,827,457 tCO2e over the 10-year crediting period — a potential 140× over-crediting at the ex-ante stage
• ⚠Permanence/reversal risk declared 'Not applicable' in the verification report (Section 4.6) despite cookstoves having a finite service life within the 10-year crediting period, and no buffer pool is stated in the extracted record
• ⚠Seven corrective action requests and six clarification requests were raised during verification, including an unreliable initial fuel consumption measurement method that required a follow-up 24-hour survey

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