GS10789 VP86: Efficient and Clean Cooking for households in Senegal

This VPA deploys highly efficient improved firewood cookstoves (ICS), known as ‘Kuniokoas’ reducing woody biomass consumption for rural households in the Republic of Senegal. The VPA is implemented by BURN Manufacturing Co. (in the following ‘BURN’), at the same time Coordinating and Managing Entity (CME) of the PoA, the biggest manufacturer of highly efficient improved cookstoves in Sub-Saharan Africa producing all its stoves in the first and only modern cookstove manufacturing facility in Kenya. The scenario existing prior to the implementation of the project is the use of very inefficient traditional cookstoves or 3-stone fires, consuming a lot of non-renewable firewood. The high biomass consumption has negative impacts on the environment leading to deforestation and land degradation, Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG) emissions, loss of soil fertility and soils’ reduced ability of water retention. Further, indoor air pollution through health-damaging pollutants while combusting firewood and charcoal result in diseases like e.g. pneumonia, stroke, ischaemic heart diseases, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases and lung cancer.

Project ID

GS11740

Registry

Gold Standard

Type

Cookstoves · Household & Community

Removal or reduction

Reduction

Methodology

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Developer

ECOA Climate Capital · 45 projects

Country

Senegal

First vintage

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Crediting period

2024-01-02 to 2029-01-01

Estimated yearly credits

30,326

Scale

Large Scale · VPA

Sustainable Development Goals

Goal 13: Climate Action · Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy · Goal 4: Quality Education · Goal 5: Gender Equality · Goal 1: No Poverty · Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being · Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Data from

Berkeley VROD v2026-08 + Gold Standard registry

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