Clean Cooking Transition

Over one billion tonnes of carbon emissions each year come from burning wood fuels to cook, which is 2% of total global emissions and the same as air travel. Clean cooking projects reduce carbon emissions and ease the health and economic burdens that disproportionately affect women and children. Each cookstove delivers major sustainable development impacts: 

• Protects nature from unsustainable deforestation for wood fuel
• Creates livelihoods in manufacturing and distribution jobs 
  
• Expands technology access that saves time and money 
  
• Advances gender equality by reducing unpaid work 
  
• Improves health by reducing indoor smoke
  

To end deforestation globally, we must address the unique drivers of deforestation in each community. Over half of all wood harvested globally is for cooking and heating according to the Clean Cooking Alliance.

An example of one of the projects your purchase will support is Bondhu Chula Stoves, Bangladesh verified under the Gold Standard carbon registry. 

Challenge: Only one in five of the 160+ million people in Bangladesh have access to clean cooking technology. Cooking is mostly done over an open firepit, releasing smoke and particulate pollutants, causing millions in the country to suffer from lung or eye infections. 

Solution: Bondhu Chula means friendly stove and is designed with a chimney to burn more efficiently and to take harmful smoke and pollutants out of the house. Carbon finance subsidizes the cost of the stove for end users and funds training programs for local entrepreneurs to learn how to make and install the stoves. 

Impact: Millions of stoves have already been installed, reducing fuel use by up to 50% and saving money for each family. This project is creating a market for efficient stoves in Bangladesh, involving thousands of entrepreneurs in manufacturing and distribution networks.