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Carbon projects in Africa

Carbon-credit projects registered with Gold Standard, Verra, ACR, ART and Plan Vivo, from the Berkeley Voluntary Registry Offsets Database (v2026-08) with Gold Standard registry details. Every project can be opened for its full record, and each map point says how its location was established.

Projects
2,563
1,253 active · 758 in the pipeline
Credits issued
418,108,983
tonnes CO₂-equivalent, all vintages
Credits retired
233,409,680
56% of issued
Nature-based · blue carbon
365 · 30
507 projects have a mapped location

Where the projects are

Only projects with a verified location are drawn. Click a point for its details; every click zooms in.

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Point colour is the Carbon Projects theme. The Location column shows how accurate each point is: Project location is exact as published by the registry, Programme location is shared by several projects, Named place and Area centre are approximate.

Community involvement

1,330 of 2,563 projects describe who they work with

Read from each project's own description. Where the text does not say, Atlas says so instead of guessing; project design documents in the registry are the place to check consultation and benefit-sharing.

Credits issued by vintage year

Tonnes of CO₂-equivalent

Credits issued by project type

Largest types

ProjectRegistryTypeStatusCommunity IssuedRetiredLocation
Accelerating Access to Clean Cooking in Kenya by Nyalore Impact Limite...
GS23372 · Kenya · Nyalore Impact Limited
Gold Standard Cookstoves In the pipeline
Listed
households 00 Country only
GS23365 Clean Cooking with Biomass Gasification in Cameroon No. 1
GS23378 · Cameroon · Pro Climate International
Gold Standard Cookstoves In the pipeline
Listed
Not stated 00 Country only
GS12602 GS12677 RVPA-1 Powerstove Multiple Fuel Project
GS23380 · Nigeria · EKI Energy Services Limited
Gold Standard Cookstoves In the pipeline
Listed
households +1 00 Country only
GS 10963 VPA 50 – UpEnergy – Social and Climate Impact Programme – Coo...
GS23388 · Tanzania · UpEnergy Group
Gold Standard Cookstoves Certified design
Gold Standard Certified Design
Not stated 00 Country only
GS 10963 VPA 51 – UpEnergy – Social and Climate Impact Programme – Coo...
GS23389 · Tanzania · UpEnergy Group
Gold Standard Cookstoves Certified design
Gold Standard Certified Design
Not stated 00 Country only
GS 10963 VPA 52 – UpEnergy – Social and Climate Impact Programme – Coo...
GS23390 · Tanzania · UpEnergy Group
Gold Standard Cookstoves Certified design
Gold Standard Certified Design
Not stated 00 Country only
GS 10963 VPA 53 – UpEnergy – Social and Climate Impact Programme – Coo...
GS23391 · Tanzania · UpEnergy Group
Gold Standard Cookstoves Certified design
Gold Standard Certified Design
Not stated 00 Country only
Green Briquettes for Fossil Fuel Displacement in South Africa
GS23399 · South Africa · EcoLinks Co. Ltd
Gold Standard Biomass In the pipeline
Listed
Not stated 00 Country only
GS23399 VPA-1 Renewable Biomass Briquette Production for Clean Energy
GS23400 · South Africa · EcoLinks Co. Ltd
Gold Standard Biomass In the pipeline
Listed
Not stated 00 Country only
GS2393 VPA_1 Impact Water Safe Drinking Water initiative in Uganda
GS23403 · Uganda · Impact Carbon
Gold Standard Clean Water In the pipeline
Listed
schools 00 Country only
GS2393 GS23403 RVPA_1 Impact Water Safe Drinking Water initiative in U...
GS23404 · Uganda · Impact Carbon
Gold Standard Clean Water In the pipeline
Listed
schools 00 Country only
GS2393 GS23403 RVPA_1 Impact Water Safe Drinking Water initiative in U...
GS23405 · Uganda · Impact Carbon
Gold Standard Clean Water In the pipeline
Listed
schools 00 Country only
GS2393 GS23403 RVPA_1 Impact Water Safe Drinking Water initiative in U...
GS23406 · Uganda · Impact Carbon
Gold Standard Clean Water In the pipeline
Listed
schools 00 Country only
GS2393 GS23403 RVPA_1 Impact Water Safe Drinking Water initiative in U...
GS23407 · Uganda · Impact Carbon
Gold Standard Clean Water In the pipeline
Listed
schools 00 Country only
GS12600 VPA-7 Improved Cooking: Madagascar
GS23409 · Madagascar · SANITAP LTD
Gold Standard Cookstoves Certified design
Gold Standard Certified Design
local communities 00 Country only
BIWACALI
GS23410 · Ethiopia · FORLIANCE
Gold Standard Wetland Restoration In the pipeline
Listed
smallholder or rural f... +2 00 Country only
Industrial Boiler Fuel Switch-Biomass Waste Recycling and Reuse in Eas...
GS23414 · Kenya · Lean Energy Solutions Ltd
Gold Standard Biomass In the pipeline
Listed
Not stated 00 Country only
GS23414 VPA -1 Industrial boiler fuel switch in Kenya
GS23415 · Kenya · Lean Energy Solutions Ltd
Gold Standard Biomass In the pipeline
Listed
Not stated 00 Country only
Community Safe Water Project in Ethiopia
GS23417 · Ethiopia · Carbonsink (Carbonsink Group S.r.l.)
Gold Standard Clean Water In the pipeline
Listed
Not stated 00 Country only
Integrated climate action adaptation and CO2 reduction to improve envi...
GS23419 · Mozambique · Mozambique Carbon Initiative LDA
Gold Standard Cookstoves In the pipeline
Listed
households +2 00 Country only
Durable Solutions Congo: Clean energy and environmental resilience in...
GS23420 · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Solutions Durables-Congo
Gold Standard Bundled Energy Efficiency In the pipeline
Listed
households 00 Country only
GS23301 VPA-1 Rwanda Clean Cookstoves project
GS23421 · Rwanda · AGS Carbon Advisory
Gold Standard Cookstoves In the pipeline
Listed
households +1 00 Country only
GS23301 VPA-2 Rwanda Safe Water Filter project by SPOUTS
GS23422 · Rwanda · AGS Carbon Advisory
Gold Standard Clean Water Certified design
Gold Standard Certified Design
households +1 00 Country only
MuLaKiLa
GS23431 · Rwanda · Reforest'Action
Gold Standard Afforestation/Reforestation In the pipeline
Listed
smallholder or rural f... 00 Country only
GS12087 VPA-2 SCIF Schools Drinking Water Project in Rwanda
GS23434 · Rwanda · SUSTAINABLE CLIMATE IMPACT FUND LIMITED
Gold Standard Clean Water In the pipeline
Listed
households +2 00 Country only
About this data. Project lists, status and credit totals come from the Berkeley Carbon Trading Project's Voluntary Registry Offsets Database v2026-08 (CC BY 4.0), which compiles the public registries. Gold Standard details and coordinates come from the Gold Standard public registry; Vanga Blue Forest and Mikoko Pamoja come from Plan Vivo. Figures change as registries update. Please cite the Berkeley database and the registry when you use them, and check a registry record before relying on a number.
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