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GS1247 VPA 230 The Gambia Safe Water
Gold Standard · GS7586 · The Gambia
Credits issued
0
tonnes CO₂-equivalent
Credits retired
0
—
Remaining
0
issued and not yet retired
Status
Certified design
Gold Standard Certified Design
About this project
This project will support the provision of safe water to hundreds of households across The Gambia using borehole technology. 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 from the combustion process.
The record
- Project ID
- GS7586
- 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
- The Gambia
- First vintage
- —
- Crediting period
- 2019-12-03 to 2024-12-02
- Estimated yearly credits
- 10,000
- Scale
- Micro Scale · VPA
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation · Goal 5: Gender Equality · Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being · Goal 13: Climate Action
- 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 6: Clean Water and Sanitation · Goal 5: Gender Equality · Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being · Goal 13: Climate Action
Status and timeline
- Registry status
- Gold Standard Certified Design (Certified design)
- First credits (vintage)
- none yet
- Crediting period
- 2019-12-03 to 2024-12-02
- Credits issued
- 0 (retired 0)
Location
Country only The registry gives the country only, so the project is not drawn on the map
The registry gives The Gambia as the location, so this project is not drawn on the map. It is counted in the country totals.
Other community boreholes projects in The Gambia
| GS1247 VPA 225 The Gambia Safe Water GS7581 · Gold Standard Certified Project | 21,730 |
| GS1247 VPA 224 - The Gambia Safe Water GS7580 · Gold Standard Certified Project | 20,594 |
| GS1247 VPA 229 The Gambia Safe Water GS7585 · Gold Standard Certified Project | 19,252 |
| GS1247 VPA 226 The Gambia Safe Water GS7582 · Gold Standard Certified Project | 19,193 |
| GS1247 VPA 228 The Gambia Safe Water GS7584 · Gold Standard Certified Project | 18,900 |
| GS1247 VPA 227 The Gambia Safe Water GS7583 · Gold Standard Certified Project | 18,159 |
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.