Buyer’s Guide to High-Quality Cookstove Carbon Credits
Clean Cooking Alliance (CCA)
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Abstract: This guide equips buyers with best practices and decision-making frameworks for purchasing clean cookstove carbon credits responsibly. Published by the Clean Cooking Alliance and supported by global partners such as IEA, Gold Standard, and IETA, it provides step-by-step guidance across five pillars?developing a climate strategy, defining procurement and project eligibility criteria, assessing credit quality, and ensuring credible claims. The report also emphasizes co-benefits such as gender equity, health improvement, and economic empowerment, and outlines alignment with Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, Core Carbon Principles, and voluntary carbon market standards. Practical tools include procurement checklists, assessment matrices, case studies (e.g., BURN and EcoSafi), and annexed codes of conduct and principles for project developers. The report argues for a shift toward higher integrity, transparency, and long-term impact in clean cooking finance.