Kranti Clean Cooking in Rural Madhya Pradesh, India

Audit Analysis

The Kranti Clean Cooking project is a Gold Standard energy-efficiency initiative in rural Madhya Pradesh with VVB-confirmed additionality and a conservative under-delivery profile (claiming only ~34% of the pro-rata lifetime expectation for the elapsed monitoring period). However, the project-specific baseline, a 0% leakage deduction justified only as 'deemed negligible,' and multiple cross-document contradictions (notably on the FNRB value and verified usage rate) introduce moderate uncertainty. No open corrective actions remain, and safeguards including FPIC and a grievance mechanism are documented.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠FNRB value contradicts between the validation report (0.8, project-specific) and the verification report (0.3, national default); the lower value was privileged but the discrepancy undermines confidence in the emission-factor basis
• ⚠Leakage deduction is 0% with a justification of 'deemed negligible' in the verification report, while the monitoring report describes the treatment as 'quantified' — an inconsistency that weakens the leakage case for a clean-cooking project where fuel substitution leakage is plausible
• ⚠Verified usage rate is reported as 100% in the verification report but 90% in the monitoring report; the higher figure was privileged but the gap raises questions about the robustness of the annual survey methodology
• ⚠Total verified ERR is not stated in the extracted record, preventing an independent cross-check of the 77,230 tCO2e claimed figure

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