Gold Standard

Consultation

Microscale Cookstove Methodology

  • Consultation Period 28 Feb 2013 - 29 Mar 2013
  • Submission Deadline 29 Mar 2013
  • Scope Activity Affordable and Clean Energy

This methodology aims to reduce the transaction costs for project developers while maintaining The Gold Standard level of robustness. We seek your valuable input to ensure the methodology is conservative, simple and widely applicable to project activities, whilst maintaining the highest level of environmental integrity. We are looking for specific inputs on: 1. Defaults provided for ageing of stoves, baseline fuel consumption and wood emission factors etc. 2. The different options given for determining the baseline fuel consumption 3. Approach for determining the emissions from use of baseline stoves in the project scenario 4. Monitoring approach given in the methodology including sampling guidelines.

How to submit your consultation

Comments and feedback were submitted to [email protected].

Consultation documentation

  • For public consultation: Gold Standard Sustainable Cities Framework

Reference documentation

  • The Gold Standard Simplified Methodology for Efficient Cookstoves
  • Annex A – Sample Survey Questionnaire