About
BURN is Africa’s leading clean cooking company and one of the only carbon project developers to cover the full carbon value chain, from project design and in-house monitoring to credit issuance. The company operates across 11 African countries, employing 3,000+ people. To date, BURN has distributed over ~6 million clean cookstoves across Africa, transforming the lives of ~32 million+ people and preventing ~60.4 million tons of CO2 emissions from entering the atmosphere. BURN’s efficient stoves have also generated 9.5M Gold Standard credits, reduced indoor air pollution by 65–100%, and protected forests by saving over 35.4M tons of wood.
Who we work with
We work with leading corporations, NGOs, and governments to deliver clean cooking solutions to households that need them the most.
What sets BURN apart
We make high-quality stoves
We locally design stoves that are extremely usable, highly efficient, and durable. Every BURN product starts with understanding local cooking dynamics. We listen to families, adapting our stoves to their needs in an iterative design process. Our stoves are made in a modern manufacturing plant and offer notably better performance than most improved biomass stoves.
We deliver the full carbon value chain in Africa
BURN is the only cookstove project developer that covers the full carbon value chain from beginning to end in Africa. We do it all: from product design and project creation to manufacturing, distribution, after-sales service, and carbon issuance. This unique vantage point means we are well positioned to deliver high-integrity projects.
We target distribution to families who need stoves most
Before we launch in any market, we conduct detailed feasibility studies and willingness to pay assessments to ensure our projects will be additional. This testing helps us understand common cooking fuels, the type of stoves families uses, the barriers to adopting better technologies, and how much families can afford. BURN then designs carbon projects to get our excellent stoves to low-income families at a subsidised cost.
We do robust in-household monitoring for every project
BURN believes integrity comes from ground-truthed data, so we conduct four-day in-household Kitchen Performance Tests (KPTs) for all of our most recent projects. Rather than leverage default values, our KPTs account for real-world fuel consumption, including stove stacking and any rebound effect, before and after stoves are distributed.