Assessing the Climate Impacts of Cookstove Projects: Issues in Emissions Accounting

The document examines the methodological challenges in estimating emission reductions from cookstove projects, identifying critical research gaps in uncertainty accounting, baseline fuel consumption factors, and the inclusion of non-CO2 gases and black carbon.

• Improving household cookstove efficiency could potentially reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than 1 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) annually, benefiting approximately 2.6 billion people who rely on traditional biomass.
• There are significant methodological difficulties in quantifying emission reductions, particularly regarding three variables: emission factors for fuel consumption, the fraction of non-renewable biomass, and biomass fuel consumption.
• The paper identifies several critical research needs to improve emissions accounting, including the need for better monitoring of cookstove use, the development of more default factors for baseline stove biomass consumption, the inclusion of black carbon and non-CO2 gases, and the incorporation of uncertainty accounting.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2013). Assessing the Climate Impacts of Cookstove Projects: Issues in Emissions Accounting. https://www.sei.org/publications/assessing-the-climate-impacts-of-cookstove-projects-issues-in-emissions-accounting/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Assessing the Climate Impacts of Cookstove Projects: Issues in Emissions Accounting. 2013. https://www.sei.org/publications/assessing-the-climate-impacts-of-cookstove-projects-issues-in-emissions-accounting/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2013assessing, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Assessing the Climate Impacts of Cookstove Projects: Issues in Emissions Accounting}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2013}, month = sep, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/assessing-the-climate-impacts-of-cookstove-projects-issues-in-emissions-accounting/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }