GS10789 GS10790 RVPA-15: Efficient and Clean Cooking for households in Mozambique

This VPA deploys highly efficient improved firewood cookstoves (ICS), known as ‘Kuniokoas’ reducing woody biomass consumption for rural households in the Republic of Mozambique. 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 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 result in diseases like e.g. pneumonia, stroke, ischemic heart diseases, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases and lung cancer.

Project ID

GS12440

Registry

Gold Standard

Type

Cookstoves · Household & Community

Removal or reduction

Reduction

Methodology

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Developer

Global Cookstoves Ltd. · 12 projects

Country

Mozambique

First vintage

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Crediting period

2023-02-22 to 2028-02-21

Estimated yearly credits

21,521

Scale

Large Scale · VPA

Sustainable Development Goals

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

Data from

Berkeley VROD v2026-08 + Gold Standard registry

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