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GS1247 VPA 49 Improved Kitchen Regimes:Kaliro Safe Water Project
Gold Standard · GS4553 · Uganda
Credits issued
45,665
tonnes CO₂-equivalent
Credits retired
44,686
98% of issued
Remaining
979
issued and not yet retired
Status
Active
Gold Standard Certified Project
About this project
This Micro-Scale Voluntary Project Activity 49, Kaliro Uganda, is eligible under the Gold Standard methodology Technologies and Practices to Displace Decentralized Thermal Energy Consumption. The project will support the provision of safe water using borehole technology to hundreds of households within Kaliro district. By providing safe water, the project will ensure that households consume less firewood during the process of water purification and as a result there shall be a reduction of carbon dioxide emissions from the combustion process.
The record
- Project ID
- GS4553
- Registry
- Gold Standard
- Type
- Community Boreholes · Household & Community
- Removal or reduction
- Reduction
- Methodology
- GS TPDDTEC Reduced emissions from cooking and heating – technologies and practices to displace decentralized thermal energy consumption v 1.
- Developer
- CO2balance UK ltd · 417 projects
- Country
- Uganda
- First vintage
- 2015
- Crediting period
- 2015-11-16 to 2022-11-15
- Estimated yearly credits
- 10,000
- Scale
- Micro Scale · VPA
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being · Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure · Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation · Goal 13: Climate Action · Goal 5: Gender Equality
- Data from
- Berkeley VROD v2026-08 + Gold Standard registry
Community involvement
households
Basis: Project description (Gold Standard registry). This lists who the project describes working with; it is not a check of benefit-sharing.
Sustainable Development Goals claimed: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being · Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure · Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation · Goal 13: Climate Action · Goal 5: Gender Equality
Status and timeline
- Registry status
- Gold Standard Certified Project (Active)
- First credits (vintage)
- 2015
- Crediting period
- 2015-11-16 to 2022-11-15
- Credits issued
- 45,665 (retired 44,686)
Credits by vintage year
Issued and retired, tonnes CO₂-equivalent
Location
Programme location Location stated by the registry and shared by several projects of one programme
- Coordinates
- -0.2970, 31.1915
- Source
- Gold Standard registry (public API)
- Note
- Same coordinates are shared by 4 registry entries of one programme
Other community boreholes projects in Uganda
| GS7591 VPA 7 Northern Uganda Safe Water Projec... GS7592 · Gold Standard Certified Project | 238,544 |
| GS7591 VPA 8 Northern Uganda Safe Water Projec... GS7593 · Gold Standard Certified Project | 202,161 |
| GS7591 VPA 9 Northern Uganda Safe Water Projec... GS7594 · Gold Standard Certified Project | 153,490 |
| GS7591 VPA 10 Northern Uganda Safe Water Proje... GS7595 · Gold Standard Certified Project | 87,789 |
| GS1247 VPA 2 Improved Kitchen Regimes: Kole Di... GS1359 · Gold Standard Certified Project | 75,765 |
| GS1247 VPA 3 Otuke District Borehole Project GS2479 · Gold Standard Certified Project | 74,453 |
Credit totals and status are as compiled in the Berkeley Voluntary Registry Offsets Database v2026-08 (CC BY 4.0) and change as the registries update. Please check the registry record before you quote a figure.