VPA 103 - GHG Emission Reduction through use of Bondhu Chula (Improved Cook Stoves) in Bangladesh

Audit Analysis

A Gold Standard cookstove VPA in Bangladesh with VVB-confirmed additionality and a quantified 5% leakage deduction, but weakened by the absence of a buffer pool, a project-specific baseline, and a high volume of material findings and corrective actions across the verification cycle. The verified usage rate (98.3%) comfortably exceeds the conservative 90% assumption, supporting claim safety, yet ten cross-document contradictions and medium extraction confidence temper confidence in the data record.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠No buffer pool or permanence mechanism is stated in any available document, leaving cookstove reversal risk (breakage, reversion to traditional stoves) unmitigated
• ⚠Ten contradictions between documents, including a 48% gap in verified ER figures (523,571 vs 352,957) and conflicting FPIC, FNRB-method, and crediting-period values
• ⚠Multiple 'likely CARs' from the VVB remain open, including verification of stove serial-number tracking to prevent double counting and substantiation of credit-ownership transfer from users to the CME
• ⚠FPIC status is contradictory: the validation report (2023) records it as conducted, while the more recent verification report (2024) records it as not conducted

Credit Vintages Exhausted