Cleaner cooking stoves offer hope for 1 billion Africans using wood, charcoal
When households use less charcoal, firewood or other polluting fuels, clean cooking companies can calculate the emissions avoided, have those reductions verified, and sell credits linked to them.
In February, Kenyan clean cooking firm Koko Networks, once hailed as a poster child of Africa’s green transition, closed after failing to win a government letter of authorisation to sell carbon credits.
Peter Scott, founder and CEO of BURN, says: "People said, oh clean cooking, how do you know if people are really using the stove or not?
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