Eighty percent of Kenya’s population lives in rural areas. Of these people, 93 percent use biomass fuel such as wood to meet their energy needs for cooking and heating. The country’s resulting rate of deforestation is extreme – over a 10-year period, Kenya’s forest cover has fallen from 3 percent to only 1.7 percent of the total land cover. Kenyans are walking farther to collect fuel as the population grows and wood becomes increasingly scarce. Environmental pressures on forests result in erosion and less arable land.

Impact Carbon is partnering with The Paradigm Project, Food for the Hungry and World Vision to alleviate these pressures by developing a carbon-financed cookstove project that will reach hundreds of thousands of Kenyans in rural and urban areas such as Marsabit, Mehru, and Nairobi.

Impact Carbon is working to identify  needs, select technologies and pursue marketing and distribution channels that will facilitate widespread adoption of efficient cooking stoves. In managing the project’s carbon asset development, our consortium seeks to ensure the value from this project is returned to the NGO partner organizations.

The draft report from the Gold Standard Stakeholder Consultation process is available below for stakeholder review. A paper copy of the report will be available after February 29th at the Food for the Hungry office in Nairobi. Address: Life Ministry Resource Centre, 3rd Floor, Jabavu Road, P.O. Box 14978 – 00800, Nairobi, Kenya

Stakeholders can submit feedback in the Stakeholder Feedback Round by emailing feedback to info@impactcarbon.org, or by submitting feedback in writing to Food for the Hungry. Please submit feedback by March 15, 2010.

Kenya Stakeholder Consultation Report

Original documents with all written feedback and an attendance list are also available. Please email info@impactcarbon.org.