CarbonKind’s mission is to empower and build resilience within the world’s communities that need it most, through carbon finance and community development projects.
The Problem
Globally, nearly one out of every three people rely on polluting cooking methods, like open wood fires. Burning wood increases greenhouse gas emissions and damages health and contributes towards household air pollution being the biggest killer in the developing world.
Wood collection in Africa also drives deforestation, increasing the risk of flash flooding, and is a dangerous and time consuming task that disproportionately affects women and young children.
The developing world is most vulnerable to the global effects of climate change, and where we work in rural Togo, nearly all rural families cook on open three-stone fires.
Clean Cookstoves:
Carbon Kind provides families with safe and clean cookstoves that use less than half the wood than open fires, significantly reducing deforestation and health problems.
Each of our Adokpa Wazam cookstoves saves around 2 tonnes of carbon per year, and we are aiming to provide 60,000 fuel efficient cookstoves each year over10 years.
Providing families in west Africa with clean cookstoves not only reduces CO2 emissions and increases biodiversity by preserving natural resources, but also improves lives by giving women and children the time and capacity to focus on income-generating activities and education.
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Our Approach
We’ve been implementing community development projects in rural Togo since 2016. This year we built our own cookstove workshop in rural Togo and created a clean and safe product that can be easily deployed to those communities in need.
We work closely with the local people to provide jobs, income and equip them with ways to reduce their wood consumption and resulting household pollution.
By employing, manufacturing and distributing locally, we are investing in true community development, and a percentage of profits will be reinvested back into the communities.
“I no longer have to walk for hours to gather wood. With my new clean cookstove,my children no longer get ill from the smoke”
Working with, not for
We take a community led approach and empower local communities by giving them the tools they need to become more resilient to poverty and the effects of climate change.
We enable the communities themselves to be the agents of change by providing them with a platform for development.
Robust calculation
We use the most recent, more conservative and transparent approach to calculating our emissions, which reduces the risk of overvaluing the credits.
Our cookstove project will provide Verified Carbon Units, validated through industry-leading certification programme Verra, and our SDG impact will be certified through SD Vista.
We are passionate about working towards the Sustainable Development Goals
Our cookstove project works towards 8 SDGs
Meet the Founders
We bring a diverse range of experience: leadership in international development, personal insights from witnessing climate-related challenges in Africa, and expertise in European energy markets - all unified by a shared belief in the transformative potential of carbon finance.
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Vashti Seth
A social entrepreneur with 14 years
of experience as CEO of international
development charity Deki, Vashti co-
founded Carbon Kind with the ambition to
use carbon finance to maximise positive
impact in rural communities in west Africa.
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Christian Kadangah
Christian has seen first-hand how the
effects of climate change have forced
communities, in his home country Togo,
deeper into poverty. With over 13 years of
experience in inclusive microfinance, he is
founder of NGO IADES and is committed
to using carbon finance to empower
communities to become more resilient.
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Mark Burchfield
Mark has grown his company in data and
energy services to be the market leader
in the UK and central Europe. He sees
carbon finance as an opportunity to make
a sustainable and scalable impact on
people and the planet.
CarbonKind is a partnership led carbon reduction organisation which enables us and our partners to have a bigger impact on local communities and the environment.
Our partners
We partner with estiblished charities who champion resilience against climate change in West Africa. Deki enables community empowerment across multiple regions, IADES focuses on grassroots operations, nurturing sustainable communities in rural areas.
Deki
Founded by Vashti Seth in 2009, Deki empowers communities in west Africa to become resilient to poverty and the effect of climate change.
The charity has gone on to impact the lives of over 200,000 people in over 6 different countries.
IADES
Deki’s sister organisation IADES, is a Togolese NGO founded in 2011 by Christian Kadangah which supports local communities to build sustainable futures.
IADES is fully immersed in the ground work in the local area.
