Changing Lives via Improved Cooking – Ghana 1

The project aims to positively impact the livelihoods of its beneficiaries, by disseminating improved cooking devices in Ghana. The project ICSs' will replace traditional / inefficient biomass stoves in the baseline. The prevalent use of traditional / inefficient cooking technologies in Ghana results in significant GHG emissions from use of non-renewable biomass (NRB) sourced unsustainably. Furthermore, traditional solid biomass-based cooking releases significant amounts of smoke and particulate matter (PM), exposing the primary cooks to hazardous levels of indoor air pollution (IAP). The project ICSs are designed to be thermally more efficient than baseline stoves, thereby reducing fuel consumption, cooking time, smoke, and PM emissions. Thus, the project reduces GHG emission while simultaneously creating a cleaner cooking environment for women and reducing IAP exposure to women and children. The project, initially registered as a CDM CPA under the CDM PoA 5342, with reference ID 5342-P1-0013-CP1, is now transitioning to Gold Standard as a small-scale project.

Project ID

GS12864

Registry

Gold Standard

Type

Cookstoves · Household & Community

Removal or reduction

Reduction

Methodology

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Developer

Envirofit International Ltd. · 16 projects

Country

Ghana

First vintage

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Crediting period

2019-04-12 to 2029-04-11

Estimated yearly credits

52,048

Scale

Small Scale · Standalone

Sustainable Development Goals

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

Data from

Berkeley VROD v2026-08 + Gold Standard registry

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