Review Request Form
Submitted Request for Review Form (Version 03.0)
SECTION 1: GENERAL INFORMATION
Title and UNFCCC reference number
of the project activity or
programme of activities (PoA) 		7997: "BioLite Improved Cook stoves Programme"
Titles and reference numbers of
the component project activities
(CPAs) covered by the request for issuance
Date of the request for issuance 2020/07/02
Monitoring period to which
the request for issuance applies 		2019/01/01 - 2020/01/25
UNFCCC reference number of
the request for issuance 		7997-MP2-IRP3
SECTION 2: BASIS FOR REVIEW REQUEST
Please indicate, in accordance with paragraphs 65 of the CDM modalities and procedures
(the annex to decision 3/CMP.1), the issues regarding which you request for review. Please tick the applicable boxes.
Incompetence
SECTION 3: COMMENTS SUPPORTING REVIEW REQUEST
Please elaborate the reason for requesting a review on the issues you indicated in section 2 above

1) Refer to paragraph: VVS for PoA, paragraph 259(c)

The parameter fraction of non-renewable biomass (fNRB) for the CPAs included in the issuance request was calculated as per the “TOOL30 : Calculation of the fraction of non-renewable biomass”, as indicated in the validation report of inclusion of CPAs. The variable H (total annual consumption of wood in the absence of the project activity), needed to calculate the fNRB, is determined based on equation 4 of the TOOL30 through the parameters HWregion (average household wood fuel consumption, including fuelwood and charcoal in the country or region), Nregion (number of households consuming wood fuel for thermal applications within the country/region) and TIregion (non-domestic woody biomass consumed for energy applications and for non-energy applications). The DOE is requested to explain how it verified the calculation of parameter H, in particular:

 

a) how it has verified the appropriateness of multiplying the parameter HWregion, sourced from the ASB0035 (“Baseline woody biomass consumption for household cookstoves in Kenya”) by the entire rural or urban population of Kenya instead of only the fraction of population that consume woodfuel, given that the values standardized by ASB0035 are expressed as per person based on woodfuel users;

 

b) how it confirms  that the parameter TIregion, which was sourced from Table 25 of the FAO report "Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015 - Desk Reference", only includes non-domestic woody biomass consumption.