Wednesday
March 12
2025

UpEnergy Issues Africa’s First-Ever Electric Cooking Carbon Credits Under Gold Standard’s New Metered Methodology

By Vasil Velev

In a major shift for carbon finance, 100% of the electric cookstoves deployed through UpEnergy‘s Beyond Biomass program, which are fully aligned with Gold Standard‘s new methodology, now have the ability to track usage in real time, providing an unprecedented level of accuracy for clean cooking projects.

Photo courtesy of DFID.

Source: Carbon Herald (link opens in a new window)

Categories
Environment, Social Enterprise
Tags
clean cooking, climate finance, decarbonization, impact measurement, poverty alleviation