Smokeless Cook Stoves for Rural Districts of Nepal
GS-118 ↗ · current registry ID: GS1191
#646of 1329 in Industrial#65of 101 in Nepal#984of 1801 in Gold Standard (GS)#107of 189 in AMS-II.G
Audit Analysis
A long-running Gold Standard cook-stove project (since 2013) with a reasonable 5% quantified leakage deduction and documented safeguards, but significant data-reliability concerns arise from a major contradiction in verified usage rates (0.144 in the verification report vs 0.856 in the monitoring report), an unaddressed reversal assessment, and the absence of a stated additionality test type in the extracted record. The project's over-crediting risk cannot be fully resolved without clarifying the usage-rate discrepancy.
Red Flags
- Verified usage rate of 0.144 in the verification report (2025) contradicts 0.856 in the monitoring report (2024) — a 6× gap that, if the VVB figure is correct, implies the project may be claiming roughly 5.5× more savings than actually delivered
- Reversal events are marked as 'not addressed' in the verification report, and no buffer pool percentage is stated — a material permanence gap for a cook-stove project where stoves can break or be abandoned
- Additionality test type and VVB confirmation are not found in the extracted record, leaving the core additionality claim unverified in the available documentation
- Usage monitoring relies on self-reporting per the verification report, a weaker method than the annual survey cited in the later monitoring report
Credit Vintages
| Issued | Retired | Available | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 1,276 | 1,276 | 0 | |
| 2014 | 5,174 | 5,174 | 0 | |
| 2015 | 2,377 | 2,377 | 0 | |
| 2018 | 3,152 | 3,152 | 0 | |
| 2019 | 6,843 | 6,839 | 4 | |
| 2020 | 9,945 | 9,921 | 24 | |
| 2021 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 0 | |
| 2022 | 10,000 | 9,846 | 154 | |
| 2023 | 8,500 | 8,500 | 0 | |
| Total | 57,267 | 57,085 | 182 |
Risk Indicators
Test type not found in extracted record; long track record implies prior assessment
Reversals not addressed in verification report
5% quantified deduction confirmed in verification report
Project-specific baseline, last reassessed 2020
Grievance mechanism and benefit sharing documented; FPIC not found
CORSIA and CCP status not stated in available documents
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