Carbon credit financing offers boost to clean cooking initiatives

Carbon credit financing is making clean cooking affordable and accessible to households across Africa, boosting efforts to reduce pollution.

Every morning, Mary Kavutha prepares breakfast for her two young children using an induction cooker in her Nairobi home. Two years ago, the businesswoman relied on a charcoal stove that filled her kitchen with smoke and cost about $1.15 in fuel each day.

Today, she says, for 80 cents in electricity…