Clean Cookstove Projects.
Transforming the nature of cooking to reduce carbon emissions and deforestation, while improving respiratory health.
Why Clean Cookstoves are needed in Madagascar.
In Madagascar, the majority of households rely on traditional biomass fuels — wood and charcoal — for daily cooking. These fuels are typically burned in inefficient stoves or open fires, resulting in significant greenhouse gas emissions, high fuel consumption, and harmful indoor air pollution. The demand for biomass also contributes to deforestation and ecosystem degradation, placing additional pressure on Madagascar's already fragile natural environment.
For many families, collecting or purchasing cooking fuel represents a significant economic and time burden. Women and children are disproportionately affected, spending hours gathering fuel or being exposed to smoke during cooking.
SaniTap's Clean Cookstove Project addresses these challenges by introducing high-efficiency cookstoves that significantly reduce fuel consumption and emissions compared to traditional cooking practices. By improving combustion efficiency and lowering fuel requirements, the project reduces greenhouse gas emissions while delivering tangible health, environmental, and livelihood benefits.
Carbon finance plays a critical role in enabling large-scale distribution and long-term adoption of these improved stoves, ensuring climate mitigation efforts are closely aligned with sustainable development outcomes.
SaniTap's Clean Cookstove project.
SaniTap's first Clean Cookstove project is generating traceable, high-quality carbon credits by reducing wood and charcoal consumption and associated deforestation.
The project distributes high-efficiency biomass cookstoves designed to reduce fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions compared to traditional cooking methods. Developed under the Gold Standard for Global Goals with the optional gender-responsive certification, the project applies rigorous monitoring, conservative emissions accounting, and independent third-party verification.
Through local partnerships and community engagement, the project supports large-scale deployment of improved cookstoves across urban, rural, and peri-urban communities. Monitoring systems track distribution, usage rates, and performance to ensure the integrity of the emissions reductions generated. The resulting Verified Emission Reductions (VERs) are issued through the Gold Standard registry.
In addition to emissions reductions, the project delivers significant co-benefits — reduced exposure to harmful smoke, lower household fuel costs, reduced pressure on local forests, and time savings for households that previously relied on collecting firewood.
Beyond carbon: full impact.
In addition to mitigating harmful CO₂ emissions, SaniTap's clean cooking projects deliver substantial environmental, social, and economic co-benefits. Projects contribute to five UN Sustainable Development Goals: 1 — No Poverty · 2 — Zero Hunger · 3 — Good Health and Wellbeing · 13 — Climate Action · 15 — Life on Land.
Gold Standard verified.
SaniTap's improved cooking project is developed under the Gold Standard methodology for Reduced Emissions from Cooking and Heating (TPDDTEC v4.0).
By replacing open fires and inefficient cookstoves with low-pollution, fuel-efficient cookstoves, the project directly reduces the amount of biomass burned and the associated CO₂ emissions, generating measurable and conservatively calculated emissions reductions. The resulting Verified Emission Reductions (VERs) are issued under the Gold Standard for Global Goals following independent third-party validation and verification.
SaniTap's credits are developed to the optional higher-level gender-responsive certification — requiring proactive gender analysis and targeted actions to advance gender equality and women's empowerment, beyond the mandatory Gender Safeguarding Principles. Our credits are also aligned with the ICVCM Core Carbon Principles, a global framework that assesses programmes and methodologies against strict criteria including additionality, permanence, robust quantification, and transparency.
Project partners and stakeholders.
Stakeholder consultation is integral to SaniTap's project development process and a Gold Standard requirement. Community members, local authorities, and other stakeholders are consulted during project design to ensure activities reflect local needs and priorities. Consultation is a process, not a single event — SaniTap maintains open channels for ongoing feedback and grievance mechanisms throughout the project lifecycle.
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