EcoSafi Clean Cooking Program VPA 01: Uganda

The project seeks to replace existing cooking methods with clean cooking systems, mainly gasification cookstoves with an ISO rating of Tier 4 or above that burn sustainable biomass pellets as fuel in Uganda. These activities will be supported by revenue from carbon credits from the reduction of greenhouse gasses. Even with advances made by cleaner alternatives, most households and restaurants in Uganda depend on wood, charcoal and/or fossil fuels for daily cooking. The clean cooking initiative outlined in the project are envisioned to replace the existing cooking practices that rely on non-renewable biomass and fossil fuels. Cooking with wood or charcoal on inefficient stoves or with fossil fuels has notable disadvantages for health, the environment and economics. Better Cooking Company Incorporated (which does business as 'EcoSafi') operates via a subsidiary in Uganda as an ‘energy utility’ business to replace charcoal, wood, and fossil fuels used when cooking. The clean cookstoves distributed by the company are the infrastructure and the pellets that the company sells are the fuel. Through this business model, EcoSafi will create scalable demand for a modern, clean, sustainable, and innovative consumer product, while maximizing the environmental, social, and health impact of the business. EcoSafi will provide gasification cookstoves rated Tier 4 or higher in all criteria per ISO standards with world-class thermal efficiency and practically zero smoke or particulate emissions. The company will also provide fuel (pellets produced from waste biomass or renewable biomass otherwise harvested sustainably) for the gasifier stoves under the project. The target groups of the program are households, small-businesses, and institutions in Uganda. Using the gasifier stove and fuel pellets, we estimate that a family cooking with charcoal and/or LPG will reduce its fuel costs by 50% or more.

Project ID

GS12971

Registry

Gold Standard

Type

Cookstoves · Household & Community

Removal or reduction

Reduction

Methodology

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Developer

Better Cooking Company Inc. · 4 projects

Country

Uganda

First vintage

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Crediting period

2023-08-01 to 2028-07-31

Estimated yearly credits

83,366

Scale

Large Scale · VPA

Sustainable Development Goals

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

Data from

Berkeley VROD v2026-08 + Gold Standard registry

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