This project improves the lives of women in poor communities and contributes to a significant reduction in global carbon emissions.
Traditional cooking methods in Vietnam rely on open fires and inefficient stoves that consume large amounts of wood and release significant amounts of carbon into the atmosphere.
By replacing these with fuel-efficient cookstoves, approximately sixty-six percent less firewood is required to cook the same amount of food.
The objective of this project is to distribute improved cookstoves to poor rural households across Vietnam. In its first phase, the project is distributing 21,000 cookstoves in Tuyen Quang Province.
In addition to reducing global emissions, they ease the drudgery of collecting firewood and cooking which most falls on women.
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This project is subject to a rigorous certification and verification process. It is officially registered under the Verra VCS Registry, a non-profit organization headquartered in Washington, which manages the world’s largest voluntary GHG program.
Objectives
- Lower Greenhouse Gas Emissions: By using less firewood, these stoves contribute to a measurable reduction in global carbon emissions.
- Decreased Deforestation: They significantly reduce the consumption of non-renewable wood.
- Reduced Burden on Women: Collecting firewood is a time consuming burden that primarily falls on women.
Implementation Project partners collaborate with local authorities to distribute improved cookstoves at central locations within rural villages and districts.
The project activity targets poor households in rural communities with no access to improved cookstoves.
These are distributed free of cost to users.
This is a project that offers both environmental and social benefits. Fight climate change and improve the lives of people in poor rural communities.
- Reduces household expenses on fuel, and fosters long-term improvements in health and well-being.
- Contributes to efforts in combating climate change by significantly cutting global GHG emissions.
The efficient stove enables cooking with small-diameter branches, twigs, crop stalks, and corn cobs—fuel sources that are fast-growing, readily available, and entirely renewable.
A 2012 study by the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves found that approximately 46% of Vietnam’s population relies on solid fuels, primarily firewood, as their main energy source for cooking.
Key Benefits:
- Reduction in labor for women and girls related to firewood collection.
- Proven time savings in cooking-related activities
- Lower exposure to harmful smoke inhalation.
- Decreased deforestation by switching to crop residues and small-diameter wood.
- Climate change mitigation through reduced global greenhouse gas emissions.
Carbon Credits and Project Financing The project generates carbon credits by reducing the use of non-renewable fuel sources for cooking. By transitioning from inefficient open fires (such as the three-stone fire) to improved cookstoves, greenhouse gas emissions—primarily carbon dioxide—are significantly reduced, contributing to long-term climate benefits. These emission reductions are converted into Verified Carbon Units (VCUs), also known as Carbon Credits.
Use of Carbon Credit Revenue:
- Increasing stove affordability and accessibility for more households.
- Funding training programs on proper use and maintenance of improved cookstoves.
- Supporting project management and dissemination to target communities.
- Ensuring ongoing monitoring, verification of usage, and maintenance education.
The project applies the VCS methodology: VMR0006 – Methodology for Installation of High-Efficiency Firewood Cookstoves. This methodology accounts for reductions in CO₂, methane, and nitrous oxide emissions resulting from decreased consumption of non-renewable biomass.
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