Clean cooking: Gold Standard verifies world's first electric clean cooking carbon credits in Africa

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Biomass stoves remain a major source of air pollution and carbon emissions
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Biomass stoves remain a major source of air pollution and carbon emissions

The new project will help African families to switch from unsustainable wood-based fuels to zero-emission electric cooking

Ugandan social enterprise UpEnergy has announced it has issued the world's first ever carbon credits linked to emissions savings from the use of electric and clean cooking devices which will be verified...

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