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Proyecto Mirador
A Gold Standard-certified programme, active since the mid-2000s, building the "Dos Por Tres" fuel-efficient stove in partnership with Trees, Water & People. Its own materials state over 400,000 stoves built across Central America, benefiting 1.5 million people, with 3 million tonnes CO2e reduced after 13 verifications.
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A Dos por Tres stove used by a Proyecto Mirador beneficiary.Project photograph · Rndlawrence · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 2010 · Resized; display cropImage source ↗Licence ↗
OperatorProyecto Mirador Foundation, in partnership with Trees, Water & People
EcosystemImproved wood-burning cookstove (Dos por Tres)
StandardGold Standard certified (since 2009)
StatusActive
LocationRural Honduras; also active in Guatemala
Overview
Inside the project
Proyecto Mirador is a non-profit that builds improved stoves (the Dos por Tres model) in Honduras and Guatemala. It says the stoves remove toxic smoke from homes, reduce CO2 emissions, save trees and create jobs.
The programme reports each stove reduces 15 tonnes of CO2e over six years and removes 47% of soot particles.
400,000+ stoves
Built across Central America
1,500,000 people
Beneficiaries
3,000,000 mtCO2e
Reduced after 13 verifications
Objectives
- Build improved wood-burning stoves across Honduras and Guatemala
- Remove toxic smoke and reduce CO2 emissions from cooking
Approach
- Proyecto Mirador Foundation builds the Dos por Tres stove in partnership with Trees, Water & People, certified under the Gold Standard.
Sources
Inspect 2 sources
- proyectomirador.org ↗https://www.proyectomirador.org/index.php/en-us/what-we-do-2
- treeswaterpeople.org ↗https://treeswaterpeople.org/blog/building-a-sustainable-clean-cookstoves-sector-in-honduras
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