Clean cooking

IDCOL Improved Cook Stove (ICS) Program

IDCOL's Improved Cook Stove Program, live since May 2013, created a sustainable market-based approach to adopting higher-efficiency cookstoves, reporting 2.46 million stoves disseminated by December 2020 against a new target of 5 million by June 2023.

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OperatorInfrastructure Development Company Limited (IDCOL)Infrastructure Development Company Limited (IDCOL)
StandardCDM
StatusActive
LocationNationwide, Bangladesh
EcosystemImproved cookstove

Inside the project

The programme created "a sustainable market-based approach towards adoption of higher efficiency cook-stoves" to reduce GHG emissions, solid fuel use for cooking and the impact of indoor air pollution.

IDCOL reports the 1 million stove target was achieved by January 2017, two years ahead of schedule, with 2.46 million stoves disseminated by December 2020.

2,460,000 stoves
Disseminated by Dec 2020
5,000,000 stoves
New target by June 2023

Objectives

  • Build a market-based approach to higher-efficiency cookstoves
  • Reduce GHG emissions and indoor air pollution nationwide

Approach

  • IDCOL runs a market-based cookstove dissemination programme under a registered UNFCCC CDM Programme of Activities.

Registry

UNFCCC Clean Development Mechanism id
10512

Sources

  1. idcol.org
  2. cdm.unfccc.int