Project Activity for Local Improved Cookstoves in Bamako

Audit Analysis

A Gold Standard improved-cookstove project in Mali with a VVB-verified combined additionality test and a quantified 5% leakage deduction, but undermined by numerous material findings, eleven outstanding corrective actions, and unresolved inconsistencies in the fuel net replacement baseline value and claimed emission reductions across documents. The project's core design is sound, yet data-quality and reporting-compliance issues create meaningful uncertainty around the verified reduction figures.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Three different fNRB values appear across documents (0.63 in the 2021 verification report, 0.53 in the 2024 monitoring report, and 0.6868 requested in corrective actions), creating uncertainty about the correct baseline emission factor and the resulting reduction magnitude.
• ⚠Claimed ERR of 6,357 tCO₂e in the 2024 verification report conflicts with 9,376 tCO₂e in the 2023 monitoring report — a 32% discrepancy that is not explained in the extracted record.
• ⚠Eleven corrective actions remain open, including missing Gold Standard transition annexes, absent sampling-methodology details, and an incorrect monitoring-report form version, indicating the verification cycle was not fully closed.

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