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CARBON PROJECT

GS5658 VPA 31: Improved Cookstoves for Environmental Conservation in Southern Ethiopia

Gold Standard · GS10988 · Ethiopia

All projects Open in the registry
Credits issued
25,860
tonnes CO₂-equivalent
Credits retired
18,384
71% of issued
Remaining
7,476
issued and not yet retired
Status
Active
Gold Standard Certified Project

About this project

The micro-scale Voluntary Project Activity (VPA) is planning the distribute fuel-effiecient cookstoves in Oromia Region in Southern Ethiopia. Most families in the project area cook with the traditional inefficient cookstoves that consume large amounts of firewood. This means that also a lot of time and resources are needed to be spent for the fuel sourcing. The traditional cooking methods also produce a lot of smoke which exposes the local families to respiratory diseases, particularly women and girls who are responsible for cooking activities, but also in young children and other people (e.g. the elderly) who spend a lot of time near the cooking devices. The use of inefficient cooking methods also have unintentional negative impacts on the environment as the fuel sourcing causes stress for the local forest resources and as the biomass burning causes greenhouse gas emissions. The project will be attempting to address these issues by selling energy efficient cookstoves to households across the project intervention area at subsidized cost. The energy efficient stoves will allow households to cook the same amount of food using less firewood.

The record

Project ID
GS10988
Registry
Gold Standard
Type
Cookstoves · Household & Community
Removal or reduction
Reduction
Methodology
—
Developer
Carbonsink (Carbonsink Group S.r.l.) · 44 projects
Country
Ethiopia
First vintage
2021
Crediting period
2021-01-30 to 2026-01-29
Estimated yearly credits
10,000
Scale
Micro Scale · VPA
Sustainable Development Goals
Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being · Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy · Goal 13: Climate Action · Goal 15: Life On Land · Goal 1: No Poverty
Data from
Berkeley VROD v2026-08 + Gold Standard registry

Community involvement

householdswomen
Basis: Project description (Gold Standard registry). This lists who the project describes working with; it is not a check of benefit-sharing.
Sustainable Development Goals claimed: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being · Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy · Goal 13: Climate Action · Goal 15: Life On Land · Goal 1: No Poverty

Status and timeline

Registry status
Gold Standard Certified Project (Active)
First credits (vintage)
2021
Crediting period
2021-01-30 to 2026-01-29
Credits issued
25,860 (retired 18,384)

Credits by vintage year

Issued and retired, tonnes CO₂-equivalent

Location

Country only The registry gives the country only, so the project is not drawn on the map

The registry gives Ethiopia as the location, so this project is not drawn on the map. It is counted in the country totals.

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99,657
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Credit totals and status are as compiled in the Berkeley Voluntary Registry Offsets Database v2026-08 (CC BY 4.0) and change as the registries update. Please check the registry record before you quote a figure.
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