SMG - Access to Clean Cooking in Himalayas VPA 01

Audit Analysis

A Gold Standard clean-cooking-stove project in Nepal with confirmed additionality, a quantified 5% leakage deduction, and a consistent 90% usage rate, but undermined by a project-specific baseline, an unverified ERR figure sourced from an unidentified document, and a CORSIA-eligible status that introduces dual-channel risk. The ERR contradiction between documents (313,190 vs 19,415) and the null verified-ERR field prevent a reliable over- or under-delivery assessment.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠The claimed ERR of 313,190 tCO2e originates from a document identified only as 'unknown' (dated 2022-08-16), while the monitoring report (dated 2020-10-14, i.e. before the 2023–2027 crediting period) reports 19,415 tCO2e — the two figures cannot be reconciled and the verified ERR field is empty.
• ⚠CORSIA eligibility is confirmed while CCP status is not stated, creating a potential dual-channel allocation risk that is not explicitly excluded in the available documents.
• ⚠The verification report (2026-01-29) does not address reversal risk, and no buffer-pool percentage is stated in any document, leaving permanence protection for the 5-year crediting period unquantified.

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