Geo-spatial locations of installed stoves around Kakamega Forest. Updated July_2020.
Stoves for Life (SFL), a partnership between ECO2 and the Swiss foundation myclimate, uses carbon revenue to subsidize the price of energy efficient cook stoves in rural communities adjacent to Kenya's only remaining lowland rainforest - Kakamega Forest. The purchase of energy efficient stoves cuts forest wood use in half and reduces the time and money spent collecting wood (see photo above), creates jobs, and improves the livelihoods of impoverished people while mitigating climate change.
SFL is a CDM Gold Standard registered carbon project (GS769), independently validated by Perry Johnson CDM Services. In the first nine years of operation, ECO2 has installed over 70,000 stoves, improving the lives of more than 350 million people who now spend half the time and money collecting wood. SFL has and continues to provide annual incomes to over 500 local people, and has reduced forest wood consumption by more than 80,000 tons (equivalent to 250 acres) per year. This has resulted in reducing CO2eq emissions by approximately 386,000 total tons, or an average of 100,000 tons annually (equivalent to removing 9,000 U.S. cars from the roads annually).
"As an old woman, I am happy
that my daughters and their
daughters will not have to
endure the smokey, hot 3-stone
fires that I have lived with
all my life."
Mama Frida
that my daughters and their
daughters will not have to
endure the smokey, hot 3-stone
fires that I have lived with
all my life."
Mama Frida
Project Documents
| eco2_sfl_pdd_revalidation_may162017_clean.pdf |
| eco2_sfl_passport_may162017_clean.pdf |
| eco2_sfl_lsc_report_may162017.pdf |