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Webinar—Decarbonization Pathway Spotlight: Clean and Improved Cookstoves

March 12, 2026 12:00-1:00 p.m. ET
Virtual Virtual

Clean and improved cookstove crediting projects are among the oldest, highest-volume, and most scrutinized crediting types in the voluntary carbon market. Key questions remain: How accurately can impacts be measured? Will recent methodological updates address market concerns about quality? And how much of today’s critique reflects current evidence versus outdated assumptions?

To clarify these questions, RMI recently published a technical explainer examining risks to quality and emerging best practices for identifying high-integrity cookstove projects.

This webinar built on that analysis and convenes experts for a candid conversation about what people often get wrong about cookstove credits–and what robust program design looks like in practice today.

About the Speakers

Apoorva Sahay

Apoorva Sahay

Senior Associate

Bhushan Trivedi

Chief Carbon Officer, ATEC Global

Annelise Gill-Wiehl

Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University

Rob Bailis

Senior Scientist, Stockholm Environmental Institute

Elisa Derby

Senior Director, Climate Impacts and Standards, Clean Cooking Alliance

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