Improved cookstoves in Ghana
In Ghana, a large part of the population uses biomass (charcoal and wood) for cooking. This conventional cooking method is inefficient, unsafe and the smoke from burning the woods causes respiratory problems. In addition, due to population growth, they have to go deeper and deeper into the forest which has led to a 60% decrease in Ghana’s primary tropical forest.
The improved cookstoves allow a reduction of CO
2 of about 50% compared to traditional cookstoves. By supporting the development and distribution of these efficient cookstoves we save millions of trees, support families, boost economic activities and improve health conditions in Ghana.
The project and its CO
2 reductions are registered and independently verified under the internationally recognised Gold Standard label (
Gold Standard).
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