We launched the only cookstove project in Togo which is benefitting over 250,000 families across the country

Location: Togo

Start Date: 2022

Project Type: Efficient cookstoves

Emissions Reduced per year: 250,000 tCO2e

Area: Maritime and Central Regions of Togo

Crediting Standard:

ID: GS12069

SDGs:

Overview

The project is producing and distributing 250,000 improved cookstoves over 5 years.

Two types of locally made stoves will be distributed. The use of locally made stoves offer vast socioeconomic advantages over projects which import stoves.

The project will also support the local production of the stoves by identifying and providing technical and marketing training to 100 local potters and 30 local welders, as well as implement education and awareness activities on environmental and other benefits of improved cookstoves.

Evidence shows that these improved stoves can reduce fuel consumption by around 30% compared to traditional stoves. The project targets households and artisans in the Plateaux, Maritime, and Centrale regions of Togo, which comprises about two-thirds to Togo’s total population.

Carbon Integrity Check

  • The project is verified by Gold Standard, one of the most respected standards in the world and audited by verification and validation bodies.

  • The project was solely created for the generation of carbon credits, there is also no evidence NGOs were going to support a cookstove project in the region and profits are not generated by the sale of cookstoves.

  • Permanence measured in years is not applicable to cookstove projects as they avoid emissions for each year of crediting.

  • Leakage is less relevant in cookstove projects because it’s a project type which targets drivers of deforestation, not the active protection of a defined plot of land.

  • Our cookstove IoT heat sensors make monitoring extremely precise eliminating the risk of over crediting.

  • The stoves are locally made respecting the traditional cooking styles.

Climate

The project will protect 250,000 ha of local forest by reducing wood consumption by 40% per stove.

Each of our cookstoves protects an area of forest the size of 4 tennis courts per year

Robust carbon accounting and MRV

  • All the cookstoves will be registered and geotagged in a central database to streamline the certification process

  • Heat sensors will be installed on a random sample of cookstoves to make the monitoring process more accurate.

With these technologies our cookstove project reduces all uncertainty and accuracy issues related to cookstove projects

Community

3 billion

people still cook with dangerous  cookstoves

4 million

people die every year due to exposure  to indoor air pollution

16,7 million

girls out of school in Sub-Saharan  Africa doing domestic chores. Efficient cookstoves allow more time to study and require less time to collect wood

Our Project will:

  • Increase life expectancy of users by 2 year

  • Boost the local income of 250,000 families by $1,500 each over the period

  • Provide jobs to for the production and distribution of stoves which are produced locally

Biodiversity

Part of the profits are directed to a series of activities related to the conservation of Fazao-Malfakassa National Park

The park is home to the endangered West African Elephant (their number is estimated in Fazao-Malfakassa between 110 and 200), many species of antelope, as well carnivore as leopard, spotted hyena, serval, caracal, and occasionally lion and 244 species of birds.