Improved Cookstoves:
Clean Cooking Changes More Than Just a Meal
Cooking is an everyday activity – and in many regions, it's also an activity with significant impact. In rural India, millions of families still use traditional, inefficient chulha stoves. This often leads to smoke in kitchens and indoor spaces, long journeys to collect firewood, and additional pressure on local forests.
The Kranti Clean Cooking initiative addresses this very issue: Approximately 50,000 low-income households in the state of Madhya Pradesh are being supported with improved cookstoves (ICS). This makes everyday cooking cleaner, healthier, and more resource-efficient.
One of the world’s first improved
cookstoves projects with
CCP-labeled carbon credits
The Core Carbon Principles (CCP) set a new benchmark for carbon credit quality. Developed by the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM),
the CCP label is only awarded to carbon credits generated by projects with robust governance, conservative quantification, and rigorous monitoring and verification.
CCP-labeled Kranti carbon credits help to:
Less health risks due to reduced indoor air pollution.
Support sustainable development for local communities.
Reduce carbon emissions through cleaner, more efficient cookstoves.
*This Kranti Clean Cooking Initiative, and related carbon credits, is labeled with the ICVCM CCP Logo. This indicates that the issuing carbon-crediting program and applicable methodology have been assessed and approved as being in adherence to the CCP Assessment Framework such that the carbon credits may be labeled as CCP-labelled carbon credits. https://icvcm.org/
Each Kranti Cookstove
helps to:
-
Reduce indoor air pollution: Less smoke means fewer respiratory illnesses.
-
Save time spent collecting firewood: Families spend an average of 2.52 fewer hours per day gathering fuelwood—time gained for school, work, and quality of life.
-
Generate reliable data: Precise, measurable results through modern, digital monitoring.
Kranti in Pictures
The project, its people, and co-benefits in detail.
Hover to learn more about the project.
”
What makes our Kranti Clean Cooking Initiative stand out are the strong bonds that we keep with the communities as well as the robust monitoring processes that we have implemented to verify the project impact.
”
Pablo Carballo Chanfón
Project Manager for Kranti
Sustainable impact.
Close to its people.
Kranti was designed to deliver impact at scale, but without losing connection to the people it benefits. The project reaches households across rural areas of Madhya Pradesh, where cooking on traditional chulhas (traditional mud stoves with low efficiency) is still the primary—and in many cases only—option.
Kranti stays rooted in the community. The project conducts household in-person visits and records usage through an online platform and a dedicated app.
From Cookstove
to Carbon Credit
Improved cookstoves are distributed to carefully selected, eligible households using traditional stoves.
Each improved cookstove is tracked with a unique ID for reliable monitoring.
Monitoring in-person visits verify whether households are using the improved cookstoves across the project lifetime.
Monitoring data is stored transparently on a designated digital dashboard.
The CO2 certificates are verified according to the CCP-approved Gold Standard methodology.
Contact us to secure CCP-labeled carbon credits generated by the Kranti project and enable clean cooking with real impact.
