Efficient and Clean Cooking for Households, Somalia
This simple yet impactful initiative replaces inefficient cooking fuels with highly efficient cookstoves that cut emissions, prevent deforestation and transform the lives of Somali locals. The project also contributes co-benefits that support eight of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Vintage: 2021
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- Project Type Improved cookstoves
- Location Somalia
- Standard Gold Standard
- Estimated Reduction 309,201 tonnes carbon dioxide equivalent
Your impact
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20 t+Improving community health through highly efficient cookstoves
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50 t+Preventing deforestation and degradation of woodlands
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95 t+A Carbon Neutral Partner*
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150 t+Supporting rural communities and reducing poverty
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300 t+Reducing greenhouse gas emissions through reduced need for woody biomass
This project primarily reduces greenhouse gas emissions but also it contributes a number of co-benefits that support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Before this project, Somali households relied on traditional cookstoves that burn through large amounts of charcoal and firewood. This heavy fuel consumption drives deforestation and land degradation, releases greenhouse gases (GHG), strips soil of its fertility and reduces the land’s ability to retain water.
The project activity (VPA) deploys highly efficient improved charcoal cookstoves (ICS), known as ‘Jikokoas’, to urban and peri-urban households in the Federal Republic of Somalia, significantly reducing the amount of woody biomass needed for everyday cooking and reducing prolonged exposure to indoor air pollution.
These carbon offsets are permanently retired on a registry guaranteeing each credit cannot be resold.
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