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Aberdares Improved Cook Stoves

Standard: GS
Methodology: GS-ICS-KR (GS)
Registry: GS-1245 ↗ · current registry ID: GS883 · Registered
Country: Kenya
Credit type: Energy Efficiency - Domestic
Developer: CO2balance UK ltd

CarbonMeld's document-based rating gives Aberdares Improved Cook Stoves (GS-1245) no number (No public grade applies yet): CarbonMeld read its documents, but its type of project does not yet have a public grade that applies to it on both additionality and quantification. The absence of a number says nothing about the project's quality.

Assessment

Document-based rating

No public grade applies yet

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Negative facts

The fNRB value used (95.0%) is more than twice the official value.

Evidence coverage: medium

Methodology v3 · documents read on 6 Nov 2026

Starting point

Additionality: CCQI's score for this type of project (CCQI does not list this methodology under this programme: the grade CCQI gives this type of project under the programme)
Quantification: no public grade of this type of project applies
Claim safety: no public grade of this type of project applies

Rules that lower a dimension or the rating as a whole: 2

Each rule, with the fact and the source it rests on, is in the Premium analysis.

Not counted by the method

Quantification: no public grade of this type of project applies
Quantification: CCQI does not grade this methodology under this programme, so no public grade applies
The oldest vintage still on sale, the content of the safeguards and the verifier's quality: not among the facts read

Generated by CarbonMeld Analysis Pipeline · Methodology · About the System

How this analysis was made

Standard: Gold Standard (GS) How our current method reads projects of this standard
Methodology: Methodology for improved cook-stoves and kitchen regimes V.02 How our current method reads projects of this type
Our method: CarbonMeld methodology v3 · documents read on 6 Nov 2026

Eligibility & market

What can you claim with this credit?

Four checks buyers ask about, from the registry and the Integrity Council (ICVCM).

Airlines (CORSIA)
No CORSIA label on the registry
Not usable for airlines' CORSIA obligations.
Source: registry label · read on 12 Nov 2026
Covers: this project's credit records as read on the registry
Integrity label (ICVCM CCP)
No ICVCM information
No CCP label and no ICVCM decision found for this project's methodology.
Removal or reduction
Emission reduction or avoidance
Prevents or reduces emissions — fits contribution claims, not SBTi neutralisation.
Source: registry label · read on 12 Nov 2026
Covers: the project type, not a label on individual credits
Paris Agreement (Article 6)
Not published
This registry does not publish Article 6 authorizations.

Information only, from public sources. Claim rules (CORSIA, SBTi, EU rules on green claims) change: check them before making a public claim. Since 27 September 2026, EU consumer rules do not allow “climate neutral” product claims based on offsets.

Credit Vintages

	Issued	Retired	Available
2010	35	35	0
2011	19,513	17,229	2,284
2012	24,060	24,060	0
2013	24,379	14,924	9,455
2014	16,490	16,490	0
2015	13,839	13,563	276
2016	3,460	3,391	69
Total	101,776	89,692	12,084

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CarbonMeld (2026). Aberdares Improved Cook Stoves (GS-1245): CarbonMeld document-based analysis, methodology v3, documents read on 6 Nov 2026. https://carbonmeld.com/projects/aberdares-improved-cook-stoves/.

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