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

This research paper examines the methodological challenges in quantifying greenhouse gas emission reductions from cookstove projects, specifically focusing on biomass fuel consumption, the fraction of non-renewable biomass, and emission factors.

• Approximately 2.6 billion people use traditional biomass for heating and cooking. Improving cookstove efficiency could potentially reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than 1 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) annually.
• While carbon finance can help realize emission reductions and improve project monitoring, calculating these impacts faces significant methodological difficulties 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 accounting, including the development of more default factors for baseline stove biomass consumption, the refinement of monitoring for stove use, the inclusion of black carbon and non-CO2 gases, the broadening of emission factors, 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/.

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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} }