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. For households that have relied for generations on open three-stone fires, this shift is immediate and tangible. Meals are cooked faster, fuel costs fall, and exposure to harmful indoor air pollution drops sharply.
That daily change, repeated across hundreds of thousands of homes, underpins VPA GS12350, a Global Cookstoves carbon project delivered through a joint venture between Key Carbon and BURN. Across rural Kenya, families are moving from three-stone fires to BURN’s high-efficiency Kuniokoa stove, designed for local cooking practices. Each stove is serialized, registered, and introduced with simple user training, while local partners provide ongoing after-sales support. Where available, carbon finance helps reduce upfront costs, enabling households to adopt clean cooking immediately and begin saving fuel, time, and money within weeks.
Turning lived impact into high-integrity carbon supply
What distinguishes GS12350 from other clean cooking projects is the rigor with which impact is measured, verified, and protected. In 2025, BURN completed the work required to achieve Core Carbon Principles (CCP) labelling, reinforcing the project’s alignment with the highest benchmarks for additionality, monitoring, permanence, and environmental integrity.
GS12350 is Gold Standard–verified and CCP-labelled, with every stove uniquely serialized and registered to prevent double counting. Emissions reductions are quantified using conservative assumptions and validated through ongoing monitoring, including structured household surveys and performance testing. This approach is designed to satisfy the highest scrutiny from buyers operating under increasingly demanding integrity frameworks.
The result is a carbon supply that is both credible and scalable. GS12350 continues to deliver verified, high-integrity clean cooking credits, while BURN’s broader portfolio of CCP projects is set to release over one million credits in 2026, building on strong market demand with more than 600,000 credits sold last year.
Climate impact with meaningful co-benefits
Beyond emissions reductions, GS12350 delivers tangible social and environmental benefits for households across rural Kenya. Monitoring data show that families using the Kuniokoa stove reduce spending on firewood by around 62%, while saving nearly an hour each day previously spent cooking and collecting fuel. Continued use of the stoves has already saved more than 138,000 tonnes of non-renewable biomass, easing pressure on local forests. Households consistently report noticeable improvements in indoor air quality compared to cooking on open fires. At the same time, the project supports local livelihoods at scale, with over 105,000 improved cookstoves in active use, 195 local jobs created, and 226 people trained through project activities.
Together, these outcomes reflect BURN’s long-term approach to clean cooking and carbon markets: pairing lived household benefits with rigorous monitoring systems that translate impact on the ground into high-integrity carbon credits. As scrutiny of carbon markets intensifies, GS12350 demonstrates how clean cooking can deliver climate outcomes that are both meaningful for families and credible at the highest levels of the market
Why BURN CCP credits, and Why Now
As carbon markets mature, buyers are increasingly judged not just on whether they use credits, but which credits they use. Clean cooking projects that cannot demonstrate durable use, conservative accounting, and strong governance are no longer options for buyers building a high integrity carbon portfolio.
BURN projects offers a different proposition:
Proven, large-scale deployment
CCP-labelled, Gold Standard–verified supply
Conservative quantification and robust monitoring
Clear social and environmental outcomes aligned with buyer ESG narratives
In a changing market for high-integrity clean cooking credits, this project along with other BURN projects represents a rare combination of scale, credibility, and execution.
To reserve GS12350 (VPA 22) volume for this year and subsequent years, contact BURN with the subject line “VPA 22” and your target volume.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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