Cooking on traditional open fire causes health problems, deforestation, climate change, and imposes a huge burden, especially on women. The FairClimateFund aims to use climate financing to give households that are most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change access to clean cooking.

CLI supported a pilot project by the FairClimateFund and its partners Nexleaf Analytics, JSMBT and Applied Technologies, in which 100 households in Raichur, India, were provided with clean cookstoves. These stoves were equipped with cost-effective temperature sensors to directly monitor cooking practices and transfer the data automatically to a DLT platform to calculate and validate climate impacts. The pilot project enabled the data monitoring to be more accurate, real-time and robust. Transferring money directly back to women provides them economic independence and secures cleaner cooking solutions.

The pilot phase showed that the IoT measured usage rate of cookstove in the use case is around 66% in comparison to other Gold Standard projects wherein the monitoring is done on sampling basis and the usage rate mostly reported is in the range of 90% to 95% for the first year of the project. This demonstrates the overestimation of impacts (conventional monitoring) in cookstove projects and the better accuracy of IoT based monitoring. IoT based monitoring thus helps to obtain more reliable data regarding the emission reductions achieved and hence improves environmental integrity.

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