UN-Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) highlighting Policies and strategies for bioenergy in Africa.Uganda’s and Tanzania’s Ministries of Energy, highlighting their national policies and strateg...

Three billion people (as depicted in the photo below) cook on open fire stoves worldwide and the effects are responsible for approximately 4 million premature deaths annually.Massive deforestation,...

Clean cooking champions using green and renewable energy sources such as solar power, biogas, and ethanol, drastically reducing the environmental impact. Without the heavy reliance on biomass, the ...

Clean cooking has the potential to transform the lives of women; in the home, the distribution of domestic duties continues to be weighted towards women and girls, world-wide. Cooking duties fallin...

Cooking with inefficient, biomass-fuelled stoves emits greenhouse gases, which contribute to global warming. Biomass can also be harmful to the environment and local biodiversity if the fuel used i...

Open fires and burning kerosene indoors create dangerous air pollution. Inhaling the resulting smoke and fumes causes an increased risk of lung cancer, pneumonia, heart disorders and strokes for ho...

and the first ever in Africa—just wrapped up after a dynamic, youth-driven program exploring sustainable bioenergy and inclusive climate solutions.The afternoon featured the GBEP Youth Award 2025 c...

One unique advantage of SSM cookstoves that sets us apart from other manufacturers is our ability to ship several models in a disassembled (knockdown) format. This not only significantly reduces sh...

Some headline numbers:• 2.1 billion people still cook without access to clean energy• Global access reached 74% in 2023 (up from 57% in 2010)• But at this rate, we’ll only reach 78% by 2030• Sub-Sa...

Induction cookers require cookware with magnetic properties to function properly. The most suitable types of pots and pans include cast iron, carbon steel, and certain stainless steel that contains...

The UN’s Methodologies Panel (MP) is steering a critical shift in clean cookstove projects, balancing accuracy and feasibility in carbon crediting.The latest recommendation introduces a marginality...

Although crediting programs provide some assurance, purchasing higher-quality carbon credits is not as simple as buying any “certified” credit issued by a crediting program. Some credit buyers can...

Carbon crediting programs generally have environmental and social safeguard policies designed to reduce the risk of any detrimental effects from registered projects. Nearly all require (and verify)...

To ensure that carbon credit transactions do not make people or the environment worse off, crediting projects must avoid causing any (new) social and environmental harms.Some projects that avoid GH...

Carbon crediting programs apply several methods to ensure that carbon credits convey an exclusive claim to avoided GHG emissions or enhanced removals.Double issuance is addressed primarily by:Ensur...

Improved Combustion EfficiencyClean cookstoves leverage modern engineering and design innovations to enhance the combustion process. By ensuring better airflow and complete fuel burning, these stov...

For SSM’s clean cookstoves, the fNRB (fraction of Non-Renewable Biomass) significantly impacts the carbon credits your projects can generate. Since your stoves reduce biomass consumption and produc...

We need consistent rules that are aligned across all international carbon markets to enable high-integrity carbon credits to play their part in helping to meet global climate targets.The CCPs offer...

The 10 Core Carbon Principles (CCPs) establish an independent global standard for high integrity in the voluntary carbon market. The Integrity Council uses the rules set out in its Assessment Frame...

The Article 6.4 rules lay out a UN-hosted carbon-crediting program called the Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism, which will succeed the Kyoto Protocol Clean Development Mechanism. As of October 2...

Article 6.2 provides a framework for how countries approve and report cross-border trading of emissions reductions and removals. The guidance requires countries to report on how they make use of ca...