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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
Community Carbon Efficient Cooking Programme VPA-34
GS12659 · Mozambique · UpEnergy Group
Gold Standard Cookstoves Certified design
Gold Standard Certified Design
Not stated 00 Country only
Community Carbon Efficient Cooking Programme VPA-35
GS12660 · Mozambique · UpEnergy Group
Gold Standard Cookstoves Certified design
Gold Standard Certified Design
Not stated 00 Country only
Community Carbon Efficient Cooking Programme VPA-36
GS12661 · Mozambique · UpEnergy Group
Gold Standard Cookstoves Certified design
Gold Standard Certified Design
Not stated 00 Country only
Community Carbon Efficient Cooking Programme VPA-37
GS12662 · Mozambique · UpEnergy Group
Gold Standard Cookstoves Certified design
Gold Standard Certified Design
Not stated 00 Country only
Community Carbon Efficient Cooking Programme VPA-38
GS12663 · Mozambique · UpEnergy Group
Gold Standard Cookstoves Certified design
Gold Standard Certified Design
Not stated 00 Country only
Bariq Starlinger 215 PET Recycling Line
GS12672 · Egypt · Bariq for Techno & Advances Infustries
Gold Standard Waste Recycling In the pipeline
Listed
Not stated 00 Country only
GS12102 GS12458 RVPA-1 Carbon Credit financing for sustainable rural w...
GS12673 · Tanzania · Carbonsink (Carbonsink Group S.r.l.)
Gold Standard Clean Water Active
Gold Standard Certified Project
Not stated 00 Country only
GivePower East Africa Solar Water Farms
GS12674 · Kenya · South Pole Ltd
Gold Standard Clean Water In the pipeline
Listed
local communities 00 Country only
VPA-1 GivePower Kenya Solar Water Farms
GS12676 · Kenya · South Pole Ltd
Gold Standard Clean Water In the pipeline
Listed
households 00 Country only
GS12602 VPA-1 Powerstove Multiple Fuel Project
GS12677 · Nigeria · EKI Energy Services Limited
Gold Standard Cookstoves In the pipeline
Listed
Not stated 00 Country only
JACA MBE ARR Congo
GS12679 · Republic of the Congo · RENCO GREEN SALRU
Gold Standard Afforestation/Reforestation In the pipeline
Listed
local communities 00 Country only
JatroGreen Madagascar SDG Jatropha Project
GS12682 · Madagascar · JatroGreen SARL
Gold Standard Afforestation/Reforestation In the pipeline
Listed
local communities 00 Country only
GS12102 GS12458 RVPA-2 Carbon Credit financing for sustainable rural w...
GS12687 · Tanzania · Carbonsink (Carbonsink Group S.r.l.)
Gold Standard Clean Water Active
Gold Standard Certified Project
Not stated 00 Country only
GS12102 GS12458 RVPA-3 Carbon Credit financing for sustainable rural w...
GS12688 · Tanzania · Carbonsink (Carbonsink Group S.r.l.)
Gold Standard Clean Water Active
Gold Standard Certified Project
Not stated 00 Country only
Access to Clean Water
GS12693 · Côte d'Ivoire · ERDA ILLUMINE LOW CARBON SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED
Gold Standard Clean Water Certified design
Gold Standard Certified Design
households +3 00 Country only
Red Sea Wind Energy Project
GS12768 · Egypt · Red Sea Wind Energy SAE (RSWE)
Gold Standard Wind Certified design
Gold Standard Certified Design
Not stated 00 Country only
GS12771 PoA Sustainable Energy Generation through Biodigester System
GS12771 · Côte d'Ivoire · ERDA ILLUMINE LOW CARBON SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED
Gold Standard Biodigesters Certified design
Gold Standard Certified Design
local communities 00 Country only
GS 12778 PoA Solar Installations
GS12778 · Côte d'Ivoire · ERDA ILLUMINE LOW CARBON SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED
Gold Standard Solar - Centralized Certified design
Gold Standard Certified Design
smallholder or rural f... +2 00 Country only
Southern Africa Clean Cookstove Initiative (SACCI) PoA
GS12783 · Zimbabwe · AITHER IMPACT INC.
Gold Standard Cookstoves Certified design
Gold Standard Certified Design
households 00 Country only
Ayémé solar PV plant
GS12784 · Gabon · AERA Group
Gold Standard Solar - Centralized Certified design
Gold Standard Certified Design
Not stated 00 Country only
Word Forest Kenya VPA001
GS12797 · Kenya · The Word Forest Organisation
Gold Standard Afforestation/Reforestation In the pipeline
Listed
smallholder or rural f... 00 Country only
GS11574 VPA-1 Madagascar Water Project
GS12799 · Madagascar · GREEN DEVELOPMENT AS
Gold Standard Community Boreholes In the pipeline
Listed
households 00 Country only
GS11993 GS11994 VPA2: African Clean Energy for Cooking in Uganda
GS12800 · Uganda · African Clean Energy B.V.
Gold Standard Cookstoves Certified design
Gold Standard Certified Design
women 00 Country only
Safe drinking water for Kenyan households and institutions (schools)
GS12807 · Kenya · Nazava
Gold Standard Clean Water In the pipeline
Listed
households 00 Country only
GS12600 VPA-4 Clean Water: Madagascar
GS12808 · Madagascar · SANITAP LTD
Gold Standard Clean Water In the pipeline
Listed
local communities 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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