Laya Surakshana VER Project for Tribal Communities

Audit Analysis

The Laya Surakshana project is a Gold Standard cookstove and water-filter deployment for tribal communities in India with VVB-confirmed additionality and a quantified 5% leakage deduction, but it is burdened by over 30 corrective actions, a project-specific baseline, an unverified 90% usage-rate assumption, and multiple cross-document data inconsistencies that undermine confidence in the reported emission reductions.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Over 30 corrective actions and clarifications logged across verification and validation reports, including calculation errors in operating days, formula mistakes in emission-reduction sheets, and a methodology-name discrepancy (TPDDTEC vs AMS II.G) that raises questions about the project's regulatory classification.
• ⚠The 90% stove usage rate is assumed in the validation report but no verified usage-rate figure appears in any monitoring or verification document, creating a material over-crediting risk.
• ⚠Actual emission reductions in the 2024 monitoring period (25,076 tCO₂e) are below the PDD's original lifetime estimate trajectory, and the verification report explicitly notes that reductions decreased compared to PDD estimates due to traditional stove usage and exclusion of water filters.
• ⚠The project type is inconsistently labelled as both CDM and GS VER across documents, and the methodology reference is contradictory (TPDDTEC in the PDD vs AMS II.G in the registry), creating ambiguity about which ruleset governs the project.

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