Empowering Kenya through Positive Impact Cooking by d.light
Gold Standard · GS12307 · Kenya
About this project
The project aims to bring a positive impact in the livelihoods of project beneficiaries, by disseminating improved cooking devices in Kenya. The project ICSs' will replace traditional / inefficient biomass stoves in the baseline. The prevalent use of traditional / inefficient cooking technologies in Kenya results in significant GHG emissions from use of non-renewable biomass (NRB) sourced unsustainably. Furthermore, the traditional solid biomass based cooking releases significant amounts of smoke, particulate matter (PM), exposing the primary cook to hazardous levels of indoor air pollution (IAP). The project ICSs are designed to be thermally more efficient than baseline stoves and hence reduce fuel consumption, cooking time and smoke, PM emissions. Thus the project reduces GHG emission, while simultaneously creating cleaner cooking environment for women and reduced IAP exposure to women and children. D.light is the project participant and the project implementer. Climate Secure is the project representative.
The record
- Project ID
- GS12307
- Registry
- Gold Standard
- Type
- Cookstoves · Household & Community
- Removal or reduction
- Reduction
- Methodology
- GS TPDDTEC Reduced emissions from cooking and heating – technologies and practices to displace decentralized thermal energy consumption V4.0
- Developer
- Climate Secure India Pvt. Ltd · 2 projects
- Country
- Kenya
- First vintage
- 2022
- Crediting period
- 2022-08-01 to 2027-07-31
- Estimated yearly credits
- 780,093
- Scale
- Large Scale · Standalone
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 4: Quality Education · Goal 13: Climate Action · Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy · Goal 15: Life On Land · Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth · Goal 5: Gender Equality · Goal 1: No Poverty
- Data from
- Berkeley VROD v2026-08 + Gold Standard registry
Community involvement
Status and timeline
- Registry status
- Gold Standard Certified Project (Active)
- First credits (vintage)
- 2022
- Crediting period
- 2022-08-01 to 2027-07-31
- Credits issued
- 472,633 (retired 382,331)
Credits by vintage year
Issued and retired, tonnes CO₂-equivalent
Location
The registry gives Kenya as the location, so this project is not drawn on the map. It is counted in the country totals.
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