Up Energy Improved Cookstoves Programme, Uganda – CPA No 036 supported by Republic of Korea

Audit Analysis

The Up Energy Improved Cookstoves project in Uganda has confirmed additionality and reasonable safeguards, but is undermined by a 5.3× discrepancy between ERR figures in different documents, multiple material findings on thermal-efficiency data inconsistencies, and an unaddressed permanence/reversal gap. The project's re-validation in 2025 with a new 5-year crediting period adds complexity to interpreting the 2022 monitoring data. Overall, the credit carries moderate over-crediting risk and data-reliability concerns.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠ERR figures differ by 5.3× between the 2022 verification report (600,815 tCO₂e) and the 2024 appendix (113,098 tCO₂e), indicating a major data-reliability or scope inconsistency
• ⚠Verification report lists 5 CARs and 2 CLs, including thermal-efficiency values inconsistent with the registered CPA-DD and discrepancies between the ER spreadsheet and WBT reports
• ⚠Reversal/permanence risk is explicitly 'not addressed' and no buffer pool percentage is stated in any available document
• ⚠Crediting period changed from 2014–2034 (20-year) to 2024–2029 (5-year) between validation events, complicating the interpretation of the 2022 monitoring period

Credit Vintages Exhausted