BURN Cookstoves Kenya
Registry: Gold Standard
Project ID: 5642
BURN Manufacturing designs, produces, and distributes Africa’s most efficient cooking stoves. Launched in 2013, BURN employs more than 600 people (mostly women) and has distributed more than 1.2 million stoves.
This project enables more families in rural Kenya to cook with cleaner cookstoves. Rural families in this region typically spend significant resources gathering firewood and charcoal for cooking on open and inefficient fires, creating indoor air pollution which leads to respiratory disease. This practice puts pressure on local forests and increases greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
By investing in BURN, you subsidize the purchase price of the cookstoves, making them more accessible to communities across Kenya.
Project Type
Energy Efficiency - Clean Cookstoves
Location
Kenya
UN Sustainability Goals
How it reduces emissions
This project reduces emissions by subsidizing the cost of high efficiency cookstoves. Use of these stoves reduces firewood and coal consumption thus reducing the emission of GHGs. The project is responsible for reducing over 900,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e) annually.
Co-Benefits
- Improves air quality, reducing respiratory disease
- Improves household access to clean energy services
- Reduces the burden of firewood collection on women and girls, giving them time to pursue other important ventures such as education
- Reduces deforestation and pressure on local forest ecosystems
- Reduces fuel expenditure for poor households
- Provides hundreds of employment opportunities
- Reduces fuel consumption by up to 45% and cooking time by up to 50%
The BURN Cookstoves project enables families in rural Kenya to cook food using cleaner, more efficient cook stoves, leading to less charcoal usage.
BURN manufactures and distributes the market-leading ‘Jikokoa’ stove locally and to multiple countries in Africa, employing more than 600 people in sales, manufacturing and distribution.
