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Clean Cookstoves — Example Project
Clean Cookstoves — Example Project
Core Score
DevelopingThe cheapest credits on the site, and the ones we'd flag hardest to fully verify. Avoidance credits like this rest on a counterfactual assumption — how many households would have kept burning wood or charcoal anyway — which is inherently harder to prove than a removal project like biochar. Real health and community co-benefits, but leakage risk is the main thing to weigh.
- Permanence How long the carbon stays locked away
- N/A — avoidance, not removal
- Leakage risk Whether cutting emissions here just pushes them elsewhere
- Limited
- Verification quality How rigorously an independent auditor checked this
- Moderate
- Co-benefits Extra good it does beyond carbon — jobs, health, biodiversity
- Strong
Illustrative example — this is one of OpenCarbon's example placeholder projects, scored to show how the Core Score works.
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⚠ Example project — placeholder content, not a real project or purchasable credit. Replace before launch.
Distributes fuel-efficient cookstoves that cut household firewood use, reducing both emissions and indoor air pollution.
| Registry | Gold Standard |
| Developer | [PLACEHOLDER — "Example Developer Co."] |
| Country | [PLACEHOLDER — e.g. Kenya / Ghana] |
| Vintage | 2025 (the year this emission reduction happened) |
Permanence — the main thing to weigh: This is called an "avoidance" credit, not a "removal" credit — it works by preventing CO2 from being released in the first place, rather than pulling existing CO2 back out of the air. That makes it harder to prove these households wouldn't have switched to cleaner stoves anyway, which is why it's priced lower and scored lower above.
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Verified against real standards
Projects are audited under an established methodology (e.g. Gold Standard, Verra, Puro.earth) before any credit is issued.
Serial-numbered & registered
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Retired — with your certificate
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