GS10789 GS10791 RVPA-22: Efficient and Clean Cooking for households in Kenya
Gold Standard · GS12350 · Kenya
About this project
This VPA deploys highly efficient improved Firewood cookstoves (ICS), known as ‘Kuniokoas’ reducing woody biomass consumption for rural households in the Republic of Kenya. 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. BURN collaborates with various local partners on the ground to assist in the different activities of this cookstove project. 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 charcoal and 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, ischemic heart diseases, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases and lung cancer. The project activity will relieve these negative impacts.
The record
- Project ID
- GS12350
- Registry
- Gold Standard
- Type
- Cookstoves · Household & Community
- Removal or reduction
- Reduction
- Methodology
- —
- Developer
- Global Cookstoves Ltd. · 12 projects
- Country
- Kenya
- First vintage
- 2023
- Crediting period
- 2022-11-29 to 2027-11-28
- Estimated yearly credits
- 27,285
- Scale
- Large Scale · VPA
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 5: Gender Equality · Goal 4: Quality Education · Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being · Goal 1: No Poverty · Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy · Goal 13: Climate Action · Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth · Goal 15: Life On Land
- Data from
- Berkeley VROD v2026-08 + Gold Standard registry
Community involvement
Status and timeline
- Registry status
- Gold Standard Certified Project (Active)
- First credits (vintage)
- 2023
- Crediting period
- 2022-11-29 to 2027-11-28
- Credits issued
- 163,165 (retired 24,205)
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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