Greenplinth Africa is rolling out 80 million clean cookstoves across Nigeria to replace firewood and charcoal cooking. The project aims to cut indoor air pollution, reduce deforestation, and generate carbon credits. Each stove is fitted with a digital monitoring device to verify usage, and the data is stored on a blockchain system for transparency. The company says the initiative could prevent up to 1.2 billion tonnes of CO2 emissions and create 35 million green jobs. The first phase will distribute two million stoves per state, with Lagos, Benue, Niger, and Nasarawa already signed on. Households get the stoves free under a lease agreement, plus a monthly cooking stipend, health coverage, and biomass briquettes. The project also includes planting four billion commercial trees to restore degraded land. Critics will want to see how the digital monitoring holds up at scale and whether the carbon credit revenue materializes as projected.
