Solar Cookstoves Project in Bolivia

Audit Analysis

This Gold Standard solar cookstove project in Bolivia shows a conservative delivery profile (claiming only ~62% of the pro-rata ex-ante expectation for the monitoring period) and no material findings, but suffers from significant data-quality gaps: a 100× discrepancy in the fuel net replacement baseline between two monitoring reports, no verified ERR figure, no buffer pool, and reversal risk left unaddressed. The project-specific baseline and the absence of a quantified leakage deduction further weaken the integrity case.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠FNRB value differs by a factor of 100 between the 2017 monitoring report (0.8049) and the 2019 monitoring report (80.49), almost certainly a unit error (kg vs t CO₂e) that undermines confidence in the quantification
• ⚠No buffer pool or reversal-risk mitigation is documented for a cookstove project where stoves can break, be lost, or be replaced with conventional alternatives
• ⚠Leakage is 'deemed negligible' in the PDD but no quantified deduction or robust justification appears in the monitoring reports
• ⚠Crediting period is inconsistent between the PDD (2011–2021) and the 2019 monitoring report (2009–2018), creating ambiguity about the valid crediting window

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