Gold Standard Labels First CCP-Eligible Cookstove Credits  

Gold Standard has labelled its first ICVCM Core Carbon Principles (CCP) eligible credits from clean cooking methodologies. 

The projects, certified under Gold Standard for the Global Goals, deliver strong verified contributions across multiple Sustainable Development Goals, including health, gender equality, clean energy, climate action, and life on land. Community projects like these provide an opportunity for companies who want to take responsibility for their emissions to purchase credits that represent real emission reductions and verified improvements to people’s lives.  

This milestone is a recognition of Gold Standard’s longstanding leadership in integrity, transparency, and real impact for people and nature. It also reflects Gold Standard's commitment to expanding market access and optionality for project developers, giving them recognised credibility across multiple market channels. Alongside CCP eligibility, Gold Standard has also recently been approved to supply credits for CORSIA Phase 2, further strengthening developers’ access to compliance and voluntary markets. 

The CCP-labelled clean cooking credits from the following projects: 

• Efficient and Clean Cooking for Households in Kenya, developed by Global Cookstoves Ltd, a joint venture between project financier Key Carbon and Africa-focused clean cookstove maker BURN Manufacturing, this project deploys high-efficiency Kuniokoa improved cookstoves across rural Kenya, reducing wood fuel consumption, deforestation, greenhouse gas emissions, and harmful indoor air pollution while improving household health and environmental resilience. 
• Arborify Cookstoves Togo, developed by Africa 4 Climate SA, the Arborify Cookstoves Togo project manufactures and distributes 200,000 improved biomass cookstoves to households and artisans across southern Togo, cutting fuel use by around 30%, lowering emissions, improving health, and supporting local livelihoods through locally produced technologies. 
• Agasco Improved Cookstoves Nigeria, by Agasco in partnership with Roshan Renewables, replaces inefficient three-stone fires across rural Nigeria with advanced improved cookstoves, reducing fuelwood and charcoal use, cutting greenhouse-gas emissions and deforestation, improving indoor air quality and household health, and strengthening local livelihoods and energy security. 
• Microfinance for Clean Energy Product Lines, Mongolia, this Programme of Activities developed by MicroEnergy Credits in partnership with XacBank supports low-income households and microentrepreneurs in Mongolia to access and finance efficient cookstoves and heating technologies through local microfinance institutions, reducing emissions, improving indoor air quality, and enhancing household health and resilience.  

Gold Standard submitted all its cookstove methodologies to ICVCM at the earliest opportunity, and they were accepted without requiring updates, underscoring the robustness of existing Gold Standard rules, scientific foundations, and safeguards. CCP recognition for these methodologies helps ensure these high-impact projects are appropriately valued for both their climate and development benefits. 

All Gold Standard credits currently labelled as CCP-eligible can be viewed on our impact registry.  We anticipate further cookstove projects will receive CCP labels in the coming weeks.