Installation of high efficiency wood burning cookstoves in Kenya

Audit Analysis

A VCS cookstove project in Kenya with solid additionality (combined test, VVB-verified) and conservative usage-rate verification, but undermined by a major ERR figure contradiction (20,978 vs 130,982 in the same report), dual CORSIA/CCP eligibility creating double-claiming risk, repeated corrective actions on core survey parameters, and the absence of a buffer pool. The project is functional but carries meaningful data-reliability and market-integrity concerns.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠ERR figure contradiction within the same verification report (2024-09-26): 20,978 vs 130,982 — unexplained discrepancy that undermines confidence in the verified credit quantity
• ⚠Project is both CORSIA-eligible (monitoring report, 2026) and CCP-eligible (monitoring report, 2026), creating a dual-channel double-claiming risk
• ⚠Multiple corrective action requests across verification cycles concerning the accuracy and transparency of B_y,new,i,survey values and the proportion of operational cookstoves — core MRV parameters
• ⚠No buffer pool or explicit permanence mechanism documented, despite reversal events being 'not addressed' in the most recent verification report
• ⚠Usage monitoring method contradicts between documents (annual survey vs smart meter), raising questions about the actual MRV approach

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