The Breathing Space Improved Cooking Stoves Programme, India - VPA No. 11 Envirofit

Integrity

The project has some integrity support because the validation record confirms additionality through a combined test and the VVB also verified additionality. However, the monitoring record leaves leakage justification not addressed, reversal events are not addressed, and no buffer pool is found, which weakens permanence and leakage confidence. The verification report also notes five clarification requests and three corrective action requests, indicating unresolved quality issues in the audit trail.

Transparency

Transparency is moderate because the monitoring period is stated and the verifier is identified as Carbon Check (India) Private Ltd. Still, the extracted record does not provide total claimed or verified emission reductions, which limits public traceability of the crediting outcome. The monitoring approach is described as annual surveys, but the source set contains conflicting values for usage monitoring and other parameters, reducing clarity.

Claim Safety

Claim safety is mixed. The verified usage rate of 0.812 is below the assumed 0.95, which is a positive sign against over-crediting, but the project still relies on a project baseline rather than a more standardized recent reassessment. The project is marked CORSIA-eligible and CCP status is not mentioned, so dual-channel claim risk is not fully resolved, and the inconsistent leakage treatment across documents adds further caution.

Documentation

Documentation quality is fair but not strong. Multiple official documents were used, including the PDD, validation report, verification report, monitoring report, and appendix, which helps coverage. However, extraction confidence is only medium, the crediting period appears in conflicting forms across documents, and the verification report records several corrective actions, all of which reduce confidence in the completeness and consistency of the file.

Overall

Overall, this project sits in the middle of the quality range: it has real evidence of additionality and some safeguard coverage, but the record is weakened by unresolved leakage treatment, missing permanence protections, and audit findings. The contradictions should be weighted toward the more recent or more specific sources: the 2017 validation report for additionality test type, the 2018 monitoring report for verified usage rate and FNRB, and the 2020 monitoring record for leakage being not addressed. Because the documentation score is above the gating threshold, no post-score transparency cap is implied here, but the integrity score remains only moderate due to the unresolved issues.