Clean cookingContested

Myanmar Cookstove Initiative (CDM PoA 10471)

The UNFCCC's CDM registry lists PoA 10471, a programme coordinated by the Climate Change Center (CCC) to distribute improved cookstoves in Myanmar under methodology AMS-II.G, registered on 25 March 2019. The same registry shows a de-registration date of 10 April 2025, without giving a reason.

MyanmarImproved biomass cookstovesCDM PoA 10471 (AMS-II.G); Article 6.4 per press reports
Image credit
Magnificent natural scenery of central Burma. The landscape in this remote area of Myanmar alternates between forests and rice paddies. Tabu, Kalaw, Shan Hills, Myanmar. Geographic context.Location context · Vyacheslav Argenberg · CC BY 4.0 · 2008 · Resized; display cropImage source ↗Licence ↗
OperatorClimate Change Center (CCC), with Myanmar's MONREC
EcosystemImproved biomass cookstoves
StandardCDM PoA 10471 (AMS-II.G); Article 6.4 per press reports
StatusContested
LocationMyanmar
Overview

Inside the project

Press reports in February 2026 describe the programme's credits as the first approved under the Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism (Article 6.4). The implementer's framing, as reported by France24, is that the stoves reduce harmful household air pollution and ease pressure on local forests.

REDD-Monitor, citing analysis by Plan 1.5, Carbon Market Watch and UC Berkeley, reports that Myanmar's environment ministry MONREC is controlled by the military junta and subject to EU sanctions, and that the credited reductions face allegations of potential seven-fold over-crediting.

21,656 tCO2e/yr
Expected reductions (CDM registry estimate)

Approach

  • Distribution of improved cookstoves credited under AMS-II.G, the CDM methodology for energy efficiency in thermal applications of non-renewable biomass.

Sources

Inspect 3 sources
  1. cdm.unfccc.int ↗https://cdm.unfccc.int/ProgrammeOfActivities/gotoPoA?id=LGABR9Q0JYH68VN5WI7MUXTEKDCSOP
  2. france24.com ↗https://www.france24.com/en/environment/20260226-un-approves-first-carbon-credit-to-myanmar-woodstove-project
  3. reddmonitor.substack.com ↗https://reddmonitor.substack.com/p/first-article-64-carbon-credits-from

Sources disagree on this project; both accounts are given above.

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