iRise Carbon Joins the Clean Cooking Alliance

iRise Carbon is now listed in the Clean Cooking Alliance's Sector Directory — a recognition that places the organisation among the world's leading actors in the transition away from traditional, polluting cooking methods towards cleaner, more efficient alternatives.

The Clean Cooking Alliance (CCA) is the global body convening governments, the private sector, and civil society to accelerate the adoption of clean cooking solutions. With 2.3 billion people worldwide still relying on open fires or inefficient stoves — causing 3.8 million premature deaths annually from indoor air pollution — the Alliance represents one of the most important humanitarian and climate coalitions in the world.

What the Listing Recognises

iRise Carbon is listed in the CCA Sector Directory as a Carbon Asset and Project Developer, with active work across cookstove design, manufacture, assembly, and distribution and retail channels in Malawi. The listing formally recognises iRise's large-scale programme to distribute improved cookstoves across communities in Sub-Saharan Africa — generating verified carbon credits while delivering direct health and livelihood benefits to households.

At the core of iRise's cookstove programme is a simple but powerful outcome: households using the improved cookstoves are reducing their firewood consumption by 50%. That reduction translates directly into lower indoor air pollution, fewer respiratory illnesses — disproportionately affecting women and children — and significantly less time spent collecting fuel. For rural Malawian households where fuel collection can consume hours of productive time each week, that change is transformative.

A Comment from Our COO of Clean Cooking

“Being part of the Clean Cooking Alliance connects us to the global community working on one of the most urgent — and most overlooked — public health and climate challenges in the world. Every cookstove we distribute reduces harm, generates verified carbon credits, and creates a direct economic link between rural Malawian households and the global carbon market. This listing reflects the scale and integrity of what we're building, and we're proud to stand alongside the Alliance and its members in pushing clean cooking into the mainstream.”

— Yani Skordis, COO Clean Cooking, iRise Carbon

Carbon Finance Meets Clean Cooking

What distinguishes iRise Carbon's participation in the CCA ecosystem is the integration of carbon finance with cookstove deployment. Each stove distributed is registered at household level through iRise's iVerify platform — capturing GPS coordinates, geotagged photographic evidence, and complete beneficiary records at the point of distribution. This household-level data provides the evidentiary foundation for clean cooking carbon credit issuance, linking the climate benefit of each stove directly to a verified, traceable record.

The result is a programme that serves two goals simultaneously: it delivers a proven public health intervention to communities that need it, and it generates high-integrity carbon credits that allow international buyers to meet their emissions targets with confidence. In a carbon market under growing scrutiny for quality, that dual accountability — to the community and to the carbon buyer — is precisely what distinguishes iRise's approach.

• Formally listed in the Clean Cooking Alliance Sector Directory as a Carbon Asset / Project Developer
• 50% reduction in firewood use per household using the improved cookstoves
• Large-scale cookstove programme active across Malawi in partnership with Mukuru
• Household-level registration of every stove distributed via the iVerify platform
• Carbon credits generated against verified cookstove distributions — traceable to GPS-recorded household data
• Dual impact: verified climate benefit and measurable public health outcomes in the same programme

View iRise Carbon in the CCA Sector Directory

iRise Carbon's full profile — covering organisational type, area of work, clean cooking activities, and partnership model — is available in the Clean Cooking Alliance Sector Directory at cleancooking.org. The listing places iRise within the global network of organisations accelerating access to clean cooking in Sub-Saharan Africa and beyond.

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