In Honduras, traditional open-fire cooking is wasteful, dirty, dangerous, and slow. These improved cookstoves are durable, cost-effective, and meet all the family’s cooking needs. They are custom built of brick and mortar with chimneys, and the rocket elbow design means that it takes less wood to cook more food more quickly. Each family stove saves about 3 tons of carbon pollution from entering the atmosphere each year – resulting in nearly two million tons of carbon dioxide reduced by the project. Families save money by buying less wood or save time gathering wood, rid the house of smoke, and, in a Dos por Tres (In an instant), help save our planet.
Gold Standard was established in 2003 to ensure projects that reduced carbon emissions featured the highest levels of environmental integrity and also contributed to sustainable development. With the adoption of the Paris Climate Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals, they launched a best practice standard for climate and sustainable development interventions, Gold Standard for the Global Goals, to maximize impact, creating value for people around the world and the planet we share.
Economic growth that must be inclusive to provide sustainable jobs and promote equality.
Climate change is a global challenge that affects everyone, everywhere.
Sustainably managing forests, combating desertification, halting and reversing land degradation, and halting biodiversity loss.
Access to justice for all, and building effective, accountable institutions at all levels.
The food and agriculture sector offers key solutions for development, and is central for hunger and poverty eradication.
Good health and well-being, ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages is essential to sustainable development.
Obtaining a quality education is the foundation to improving people’s lives and sustainable development.
Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world.
Energy is central to nearly every major challenge and opportunity.
Sustainable economic growth will require societies to create the conditions that allow people to have quality jobs.
