Conserving the Mulanje Mountains Malawi - Saving forests and empowering mountain communities with improved cookstoves

This project seeks to increase access of households and communities to improved cookstoves by disseminating affordable high thermal efficiency and low greenhouse gas emitting cooking stoves across Mulanje and Phalombe districts in Malawi. The targeted users of the improved stoves will be households and/or communities. Their old low efficiency and high greenhouse gas emitting stoves would be replaced. The improved stoves to be distributed would significantly reduce firewood and charcoal demand for cooking, so that greenhouse gas emissions would be greatly reduced; simultaneously they can provide co-benefits to users and families in the form of relief from high fuel costs, reduced exposure to health-damaging indoor air pollutions, faster cooking (resulting in time-savings), and increased cleanliness and convenience.

Project ID

GS7142

Registry

Gold Standard

Type

Cookstoves · Household & Community

Removal or reduction

Reduction

Methodology

Not provided

Developer

Swiss Carbon Value Ltd. · 6 projects

Country

Malawi

First vintage

—

Crediting period

2018-11-28 to 2023-11-27

Estimated yearly credits

36,344

Scale

Small Scale · Standalone

Sustainable Development Goals

Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy · Goal 13: Climate Action · Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Data from

Berkeley VROD v2026-08 + Gold Standard registry

Coordinates

-16.0000, 35.3500

Source

Gold Standard registry (public API), corrected

Note

Registry gave latitude 16, longitude 35.35 (flip lat); corrected to the only variant that falls inside Malawi