Millions of households across the world still rely on inefficient cooking devices, such as open fires and three-stone fires, which increase carbon emissions and impact upon household health. In Sri Lanka, 4.3 million households (out of a total of 6 million households) use wood stove users while over 120,000 wood fired stoves are used industrially.

Fuel efficient/improved cook stoves are powered by specialised biomass such as woodchips, which reduce GHG emissions through increased thermal efficiency. This both helps slow deforestation by reducing the volume of required fuelwood, as well as eliminating health hazards.

The project will promote cookstoves in industry and enable additional income through carbon credit revenues.

A prototype of an IoT device has been developed to capture data relating to (1) cooking time, (2) total Biomass used and (3) total CO2 emissions mitigated. This will enable ongoing monitoring, reporting and verification for the Carbon standards. A pilot is now underway.