Carbon Market Watch submitted this during the global stakeholder consultation of the proposed ‘Comprehensive Lowered Emission Assessment and Reporting (CLEAR) Methodology for Cooking Energy Transitions’ under Article 6.4. The CLEAR methodology is a step in the right direction for clean cookstove methodologies but it still contains shortcomings which must be addressed. Failure to tackle these issues risks perpetuating the pervasive overcrediting linked to many existing cookstove methodologies.

We urge the Methodological Expert Panel and the CLEAR methodology proponents to follow the Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism’s (PACM) rules and regulations, and to align the methodology with the best available science wherever possible, and where this is not possible, to opt for the most conservative estimations.