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TASC Clean Cooking PoA – VPA 1 (Zambia)

Standard
GS
Methodology
GS-TPDDTEC (GS)
Registry
GS-3100 ↗ · current registry ID: GS11145 · Registered
Country
Zambia
Credit type
Energy Efficiency - Domestic
Developer
THE AFRICAN STOVE COMPANY LIMITED
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CarbonMeld's document-based rating gives TASC Clean Cooking PoA – VPA 1 (Zambia) (GS-3100) 3.8 out of 10 (Low rating) under CarbonMeld methodology v3, documents read on 7 Nov 2026. The analysis read 33 of the 35 registry documents. It is CarbonMeld's own assessment, not a rating given by the registry or the standard.

Assessment

CarbonMeld document-based rating

010203 Document-based rating 3.8 / 10
Additionality 🔒 Quantification 🔒 Claim safety 🔒
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Document-based rating

3.8/10

Low rating (3.5 to 4.9)

Evidence coverage: high

How solid the credit is, as far as the registry's public documents show. Additionality and quantification start from a public grade; permanence starts at 5.0, the neutral point, where none applies, and claim safety always does.

Methodology v3 · documents read on 7 Nov 2026

Starting point

  • Additionality: CCQI's score for this type of project
  • Quantification: CCQI's score for this type of project
  • Claim safety: neutral (5.0) — no public grade of this type of project applies

Rules that raised the number: 1

Rules that lowered the number: 1

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

Not counted in the number

  • The ICVCM's decision: the ICVCM approved this methodology under conditions, and the documents read do not show them met
  • The oldest vintage still on sale, the content of the safeguards and the verifier's quality: not among the facts read

Analysed on 7 Nov 2026

evidence: 33/35 registry documents read

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How this analysis was made

Standard
Gold Standard (GS) How our current method reads projects of this standard
Methodology
TPDDTEC Version 3.1 How our current method reads projects of this type
Our method
CarbonMeld methodology v3 · documents read on 7 Nov 2026 · 33/35 registry documents read

Analysis

TASC Clean Cooking PoA – VPA 1 (Zambia) (Zambia) distributes improved cookstoves or other technologies that reduce household thermal energy use (ICS) under TPDDTEC Version 3.1; registry status Registered (GS), 1,722,746 credits issued (vintages 2020–2025). The documents name Carbon Check (India) Private Ltd as validation / verification body. The documents estimate 431,178 tCO2e per year. The latest verification report (2024-07-01 – 2025-02-28) verifies 286,181 tCO2e. The latest monitoring period achieved 98% of its ex-ante estimate (per the monitoring report).

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)

    Methodology approved by ICVCMGS TPDDTEC

    The methodology meets the Core Carbon Principles; this project's credits do not carry the CCP label yet.

    Source: ICVCM assessment · ICVCM table read on 4 Nov 2026

    Covers: the methodology (every project using it), not this project's credits

  • 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

IssuedRetiredAvailable
2020
35,01135,0110
2021
336,686267,97568,711
2022
406,815188,435218,380
2023
429,333270,831158,502
2024
443,7020443,702
2025
71,199071,199
Total1,722,746762,252960,494

Retired by

Organisations named as beneficiaries in the registry's public retirement records.

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CarbonMeld (2026). TASC Clean Cooking PoA – VPA 1 (Zambia) (GS-3100): CarbonMeld document-based rating, methodology v3, documents read on 7 Nov 2026. https://carbonmeld.com/projects/tasc-clean-cooking-poa-vpa-1-zambia/.

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