Community Basket
Clean cooking and clean water, close to the household
Cookstoves, borehole rehabilitation and community energy across Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, chosen for measurable social co-benefits.
Community is the basket to buy when the story matters as much as the tonne. Every project in it changes something inside a household: an efficient charcoal stove that cuts fuel spend by around half, a rehabilitated borehole that removes the need to boil water over a wood fire, a locally manufactured stove that cuts firewood use by roughly 70 percent. Cookstove crediting is an area where the market has documented over-crediting risk, so the basket is capped at BBB, spread across four independent programmes and four countries, and priced accordingly rather than sold as a premium product.
- Location
- Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda
- Vintages
- 2021-2023
- Projects in basket
- 5
$25.00
per tonne of CO₂e, all in
- Available now
- 12,000 tonnes
- Minimum order
- 1 tonnes
- Fulfilment
- Retired in your name
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What else these projects do
Contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 13, 15
Exactly what is in this basket
Every tonne you buy is split across these projects in the proportions shown. Each one links to its public registry listing, so you can verify any of it yourself.
Gyapa Cookstoves Project in Ghana
Manufactures and sells efficient Gyapa charcoal stoves that replace the inefficient coal pots used across urban and semi-urban Ghana. Registered with Gold Standard since 15 June 2010 and now in its third crediting period, which began 17 June 2022.
25%
of each tonne
Gold Standard · GS407
Registry listingBurn Stoves Project in Kenya
Manufacture and distribution of the JikoKoa improved charcoal cookstove, which cuts household charcoal use by around half and indoor air pollution by around 65 percent. Registered 28 February 2018; BURN transferred the project developer role to Ecoa Climate Capital on 31 October 2022.
25%
of each tonne
Gold Standard · GS5642
Registry listingHongera Energy Efficient Cookstoves Project
Locally manufactures and distributes 150,000 efficient cookstoves around Mount Kenya and the Aberdares to replace the three-stone fire, reporting a roughly 70 percent drop in daily firewood use. Rated BB because it is a young project with only its first verified vintages issued.
15%
of each tonne
Gold Standard · GS12033
Registry listingGS7591 VPA 9 Northern Uganda Safe Water Project
CO2balance works with community groups and local officials in northern Uganda to rehabilitate non-functioning boreholes, providing safe water and removing the need to burn wood to boil it. Grouped under the same Gold Standard programme of activities as the Western Kenya boreholes.
20%
of each tonne
Gold Standard · GS7591-VPA9
Registry listingDelAgua Improved Cookstove Grouped Project
The earlier of the two Verra-registered DelAgua cookstove projects behind the Tubeho Neza programme in rural Rwanda. Originally quantified under VMR0006 and requantified to VM0050 after that methodology was released in October 2024.
15%
of each tonne
Verra VCS · 3699
Registry listingReady when you are
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