Cooking up Quality: Carbon credits from efficient cookstove projects face integrity issues worth fix

Cookstove projects are gaining interest on the voluntary carbon market – they make up about 15% of the current project pipeline. In this blog, we unpack their integrity risks based on our evaluations under the Carbon Credit Quality Initiative (CCQI) and Calyx Global. We find that while switching to efficient cookstoves can have substantial sustainable development benefits and is likely an additional mitigation activity, under current carbon crediting rules the project type comes with significant risks regarding the quantification of emission reductions, non-permanence and double counting. Addressing these integrity issues is critical to provide the assurances of high integrity that these projects deserve.

                                                        Source：Calyxglobal