Clean cookingActive

Efficient and Clean Cooking for Mozambican Low-Income Households

Mozambique Carbon Initiatives Limitada (MozCarbon) manufactures improved charcoal cookstoves and has distributed over 12,500 of them to low-income households, sold door-to-door in Maputo by a promoter network that is 70% women. The Gold Standard-listed project claims a 97,000-tonne lifetime CO2 reduction.

Maputo, MozambiqueImproved charcoal cookstoveGold Standard
OperatorMozambique Carbon Initiatives Limitada (MozCarbon)
EcosystemImproved charcoal cookstove
StandardGold Standard
StatusActive
LocationMaputo, Mozambique
Overview

Inside the project

MozCarbon has implemented a project distributing over 12,500 improved charcoal cookstoves to low-income households.

Distribution of the stoves to households is done by promoters, 70% of whom are women, using a door-to-door sales approach in Maputo.

12,500+ cookstoves
Distributed
97,000 tonnes CO2
Lifetime reduction
70% women
Promoters

Objectives

  • Distribute improved charcoal cookstoves to low-income households
  • Employ a majority-women promoter network for door-to-door sales

Approach

  • Improved charcoal cookstoves are manufactured and sold door-to-door in Maputo by a promoter network.

Sources

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  1. marketplace.goldstandard.org ↗https://marketplace.goldstandard.org/products/efficient-clean-cooking-mozambican-low-income-households

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