GS10789 GS10790 RVPA-43 Efficient and Clean Cooking for households in Tanzania

This VPA deploys highly efficient improved charcoal cookstoves (ICS), known as ‘Jikokoas’ reducing woody biomass consumption for urban and peri-urban households in the United Republic of Tanzania. 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, 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, ischaemic heart diseases, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases and lung cancer. The project activity will relieve these negative impacts.

Project ID

GS12352

Registry

Gold Standard

Type

Cookstoves · Household & Community

Removal or reduction

Reduction

Methodology

—

Developer

ECOA Climate Capital · 45 projects

Country

Tanzania

First vintage

—

Crediting period

2024-06-02 to 2029-06-01

Estimated yearly credits

33,776

Scale

Large Scale · VPA

Sustainable Development Goals

Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy · Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being · Goal 15: Life On Land · Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth · Goal 1: No Poverty · Goal 5: Gender Equality · Goal 4: Quality Education · Goal 13: Climate Action

Data from

Berkeley VROD v2026-08 + Gold Standard registry

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