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This policy brief by the Stockholm Environment Institute examines the methodologies used to measure and verify emission reductions in improved cookstove projects to ensure their environmental integrity and attract carbon finance. It identifies technical challenges in calculating biomass fuel savings, monitoring stove usage, and determining the fraction of non-renewable biomass, while noting that current methodologies often overlook significant non-CO2 climate benefits like black carbon reduction.

The Global Protocol for Community-Scale Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories (GPC) is an international accounting and reporting standard developed by the World Resources Institute (WRI), C40, and ICLEI. It provides a consistent framework for cities and subnational entities to measure, track, and report greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, enabling credible comparisons and the aggregation of local data into national inventories.