Nairobi, Kenya – 20th May 2025 – BURN, Africa’s leading clean cookstove manufacturer, distributor, and carbon project developer, has announced that several of its carbon projects are now on track to receive the Core Carbon Principles (CCP) Label by early July. The credits issued under the ICVCM framework will be the some of the first-ever CCP-labelled cookstove carbon credits in the market.
The move formalizes what BURN has long delivered—high-integrity, quality carbon credits. As a developer already aligned with rigorous methodologies, including Gold Standard certification and key ICVCM quantification practices such as Kitchen Performance Tests (KPTs), the adoption of the CCP framework is a natural progression.
“BURN has historically operated our projects at the quality level now defined by ICVCM, having used the most robust methodologies and incorporating KPTs for most projects since their outset,” said Chris McKinney, Chief Commercial Officer, BURN. “We’re proud to lead the sector with some of the first CCP-Labelled cookstove credits. As the market evolves, buyers are increasingly demanding Article 6, CORSIA, or CCP-certified credits—and we’ve built our projects to deliver.”
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) was established in 2021 following recommendations from the Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets (TSVCM). In March 2025, ICVCM released the approved methodology and eligibility framework for cookstove credits, setting a new global benchmark for quality and transparency.
“We expect to close our first CCP credit sales in the coming months,” Chris added. “Our goal is to restore confidence in cookstove credits by consistently providing high-integrity, high-quality credits that generate measurable impacts on climate, health, and social well-being, all while adhering to the highest standards of integrity.”
Since 2011, BURN has sold over 5.2 million biomass, LPG, and electric cooking appliances across Africa, including its award-winning, cellular-enabled ECOA Induction Cooker. BURN’s model enables customers to shift from inefficient and polluting cooking to clean, zero-emission solutions. These stoves generate high-integrity carbon credits that lower the cost of clean cooking by up to 90%.
With CCP certification underway, BURN is strengthening its position as a first mover in quality carbon and expanding the value it delivers to customers, investors, and the planet.
ABOUT BURN
Headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, BURN is now Africa’s leading clean cooking company and one of the only carbon project developers to cover the full carbon value chain, from project design and in-house monitoring to credit issuance. The company operates across 11 African countries, employing 3,000+ people. To date, BURN's efficient stoves have generated 9.5M Gold Standard credits, reduced indoor air pollution by 65-100%, and protected forests by saving over 16M tons of wood.
Learn more at burnstoves.com.
At BURN, we have spent the past two years preparing a robust supply of CP1 credits, with the goal of providing a credible and impactful pathway for carbon offset buyers.
At sunrise in rural Kenya, a Kuniokoa cookstove is already in use. A family prepares tea without thick smoke filling the room, using far less firewood than they once did.
Blantyre, Malawi – July 15th, 2025 — BURN, Africa’s leading clean cookstove manufacturer and carbon project developer, in partnership with AIM Carbon, an international developer of innovative climate projects, has officially launched operations in Malawi with the opening of its first local production facility in the country.
The risk of global north companies cheating the global south in the cookstove carbon market has been identified as a threat to the private sector's global net zero goals and an exploitation of lower-income markets. CNBC Africa is joined by Chris McKinney, Chief Commercial Officer at Burn Manufacturing, a Kenya based green cooking solutions company.
At BURN, we have spent the past two years preparing a robust supply of CP1 credits, with the goal of providing a credible and impactful pathway for carbon offset buyers.
At sunrise in rural Kenya, a Kuniokoa cookstove is already in use. A family prepares tea without thick smoke filling the room, using far less firewood than they once did.
Blantyre, Malawi – July 15th, 2025 — BURN, Africa’s leading clean cookstove manufacturer and carbon project developer, in partnership with AIM Carbon, an international developer of innovative climate projects, has officially launched operations in Malawi with the opening of its first local production facility in the country.
The risk of global north companies cheating the global south in the cookstove carbon market has been identified as a threat to the private sector's global net zero goals and an exploitation of lower-income markets. CNBC Africa is joined by Chris McKinney, Chief Commercial Officer at Burn Manufacturing, a Kenya based green cooking solutions company.
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