Southern Africa Clean Cookstove Initiative (SACCI) PoA: VPA01 in Zimbabwe
Gold Standard · GS12875 · Zimbabwe
About this project
The ‘South African Clean Cooking Initiative’ (SACCI1) is a special purpose vehicle incorporated to distribute improved cookstoves (ICS) in the Southern African host country Zimbabwe. These improved cookstoves reduce the dependence of the local people living in rural areas on the firewood. This reduction in the firewood consumption will result in a reduction in the deforestation activities taking place in the project boundary. The ICS units are installed at the household level without any costs incurred by the households. The VPA will continue distributing the ICS units to households free of cost. The sole income source of the VPA is the carbon finance. The sale of VERs will help the VPAI (VPA implementer) to continue working towards clean cooking dissemination at household level in Zimbabwe, and scale it to benefit the communities and thus create a larger impact.
The record
- Project ID
- GS12875
- Registry
- Gold Standard
- Type
- Cookstoves · Household & Community
- Removal or reduction
- Reduction
- Methodology
- —
- Developer
- AITHER IMPACT INC. · 2 projects
- Country
- Zimbabwe
- First vintage
- 2022
- Crediting period
- 2022-06-27 to 2027-06-26
- Estimated yearly credits
- 212,766
- Scale
- Small Scale · VPA
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 5: Gender Equality · Goal 4: Quality Education · Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being · Goal 15: Life On Land · Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy · Goal 13: Climate Action · Goal 1: No Poverty · Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
- 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
- 2022-06-27 to 2027-06-26
- Credits issued
- 420,504 (retired 420,504)
Credits by vintage year
Issued and retired, tonnes CO₂-equivalent
Location
The registry gives Zimbabwe as the location, so this project is not drawn on the map. It is counted in the country totals.
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