The Clean Energy Cooking Initiative

Audit Analysis

The Clean Energy Cooking Initiative is a VCS cookstove project in India with a VVB-confirmed combined additionality test and a quantified 5% leakage deduction, but it is undermined by a project-specific baseline, absence of a buffer pool, and five material contradictions across documents—including a 17× discrepancy in the claimed ERR figure and an impossible usage rate of 1.825 in an earlier PDD. Low extraction confidence and the presence of eight audit findings (four CARs, four CLs, all closed) further erode confidence in the data record.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠The monitoring report (2024-03-01) states a total ERR of 979,346 tCO₂e while the validation report (2024-07-08) states 57,966 tCO₂e — a 17× discrepancy that cannot be reconciled without further documentation.
• ⚠An earlier PDD (2022-05-31) records a usage rate of 1.825, which is physically impossible for a cookstove utilisation factor; the later PDD (2024-06-12) corrects this to 0.95, but the inconsistency raises questions about the robustness of the ex-ante modelling.
• ⚠Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) is not documented in any extracted record, despite the project targeting household-level cookstove adoption in India.
• ⚠Minimum extraction confidence is rated 'low', indicating at least one key document was poorly readable, which limits the reliability of the entire fact base.

Credit Vintages

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