Climate Impact Partners Comments on ICVCM approving three clean cooking methodologies

The ICVCM (Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market) announced that it has approved three clean cooking methodologies for  the CCP (Core Carbon Principle) label – the ICVCM’s high-quality marker.

Lilian Kagume, Head of Health and Livelihoods at Climate Impact Partners and a co-author of the recently published Clean Cooking Alliance Buyer's Guide to High Quality Cookstove Carbon Credits commented:

"Celebrating International Women's Day with this news is powerful, given the transformative effect clean cooking has on women's lives. The ICVCM's move to bring clarity on quality across diverse project types – from traditional stoves to advanced technologies – will benefit climate, communities, and the companies channelling finance to these projects. 

We are committed to supporting projects that want to make the transition to approved methodologies and meet these new quality standards and requirements, which we anticipate will drive increased demand and command premium pricing. 

We will also actively engage with the ICVCM to share insights on the feasibility of these new requirements, ensuring they support both long-term project sustainability and market integrity. For businesses, this should offer a compelling opportunity to take responsibility for the emissions they are unable to reduce today and confidently support projects that are aiding the global energy transition, saving people’s lives, and enabling them to make robust climate claims.” 

Climate Impact Partners led the world’s first application of carbon finance to an improved cookstoves project in Bangladesh in 2003, developed the first Gold Standard cookstove methodology in 2011 of which other methodologies have evolved (including the approved TPDDTEC v.4.0), co-developed the world’s first ever Methodology for Metered and Measured Energy Cooking devices, approved for CCP labels, and is a signatory to the IEA Clean Cooking Declaration.