All of the improved cookstove projects we verify under Gold Standard bring cleaner, more efficiency cooking methods to people across Sub Saharan Africa. All of the projects we certify reduce CO2 emissions, but we are also required to contribute to other Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with our projects to certify our emission reductions. We joined… Read the full article >
Vita Partnership – Ethiopia Water Project
The Safe Water Projects we certify supply clean drinking water to people all over Sub Saharan Africa. We work hard to contribute to a number of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) when developing projects. Vita is a great organisation which CO2balance work with to certify the carbon reductions from their projects. We first partnered with them… Read the full article >
Turning the tide in Africa’s 5000-year fight against desertification
Did you know that the Sahara Desert used to be green? The vast expanse of dusty desert and blistering sand was, 9000 years ago, a lush green savannah. This period was known as the ‘Neolithic Subpluvial’, a time of mega-lakes surrounded by grasslands and wildebeest and early human settlements[1]. Then, about 5000 years ago, the… Read the full article >
‘Sost Gulicha Free’ Communities – Adapting CLTS to cookstoves in Ethiopia
CO2balance are currently supporting the distribution of improved cookstoves throughout the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People’s Region in Southern Ethiopia with our partner, Vita. As part of an initiative between Vita and the CLTS Foundation, a pilot project is being implemented in 2 communities in Mirab Abaya and Arba Minch Zuria, focusing on adapting the… Read the full article >
Ethiopia Improved Cookstove Project: Stories from the Field
Meet Mahlet Gebrie . Mahlet (28) lives with her husband and three young children (aged 3-9) in Birbir town in Mirab Abaya woredas. She is amongst the many unemployed high school graduates in the area. The only income earned is by her husband from hard daily labor, roughly 30 ETB/day (approx. 82p), which is insufficient… Read the full article >
Ethiopia Borehole Rehabilitation Project: Stories from the Field
Meet Abebech Asrat. Abebech lives in Dorze Kebele, in the Chencha region of Ethiopia. She is 36, and married with four children, two of which are very young. She is a user of the Dorze Borehole which was repaired and since maintained by co2balance in 2017 in partnership with NGO Vita. “Before the project… Read the full article >
Project Visit
Last month, I returned from a trip to Ethiopia and Kenya where I was able to see projects that are in their infancy but also some of our well-established projects. It was great to see people’s enthusiasm for the projects with the expectation that the projects would make a measurable difference in their lives but… Read the full article >