GS5658 VPA 32: Improved Cookstoves for Environmental Conservation in Southern Ethiopia
Gold Standard · GS10989 · Ethiopia
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
- GS10989
- 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
- 2021-07-17 to 2026-07-16
- Estimated yearly credits
- 9,654
- Scale
- Micro Scale · VPA
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 1: No Poverty · Goal 15: Life On Land · Goal 13: Climate Action · Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being · Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy
- Data from
- Berkeley VROD v2026-08 + Gold Standard registry
Community involvement
Status and timeline
- Registry status
- Gold Standard Certified Project (Active)
- First credits (vintage)
- 2021
- Crediting period
- 2021-07-17 to 2026-07-16
- Credits issued
- 22,653 (retired 15,099)
Credits by vintage year
Issued and retired, tonnes CO₂-equivalent
Location
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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