Developers target 'over-conservative' charcoal metric for stoves

Corsia Article 6 Cookstoves & Water Filtration
5 Jun 2025
Project developers have expressed concerns that a metric on the production of charcoal from wood in developing countries is too conservative, a dynamic they say is leading to undercrediting...

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