GS10789-GS10790-RVPA-92: Efficient and Clean Cooking for households in Zambia
Gold Standard · GS23595 · Zambia
About this project
This VPA deploys efficient improved cookstoves (ICS), reducing woody biomass consumption for Urban and peri-urban households in the Republic of Zambia. 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 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, ischemic heart diseases, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases and lung cancer.
The record
- Project ID
- GS23595
- Registry
- Gold Standard
- Type
- Cookstoves · Household & Community
- Removal or reduction
- Reduction
- Methodology
- —
- Developer
- Save Forest 4 Ltd · 1 project
- Country
- Zambia
- First vintage
- —
- Crediting period
- 2026-07-01 to 2031-06-30
- Estimated yearly credits
- 190,572
- Scale
- Large Scale · VPA
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 1: No Poverty · Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being · Goal 5: Gender Equality · Goal 15: Life On Land · Goal 13: Climate Action · Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth · Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy · Goal 4: Quality Education
- Data from
- Berkeley VROD v2026-08 + Gold Standard registry
Community involvement
Status and timeline
- Registry status
- Listed (In the pipeline)
- First credits (vintage)
- none yet
- Crediting period
- 2026-07-01 to 2031-06-30
- Credits issued
- 0 (retired 0)
Location
The registry gives Zambia as the location, so this project is not drawn on the map. It is counted in the country totals.
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