Mapato Max wedge
Clean cooking. Real carbon credits.
Our first deep-vertical play. Mature MRV methodology, audited household data, real corporate buyers — and a cash cycle measured in months, not years.
1.5–3
tCO₂e avoided per household per year
50%+
Household fuel-spend reduction
Months
Issuance cadence — not years
Why this wedge
The fastest credible path from impact to revenue.
Clean cooking sits at the intersection of an immediate household benefit, a globally recognised carbon methodology, and a deep distributor footprint we already operate.
Buyer demand is real
Corporates from tech, retail, and consumer goods are actively contracting cookstove credits in East Africa today.
Methodology is mature
Gold Standard and Verra cookstove methodologies are well established with auditor depth and registry liquidity.
Health upside is huge
Indoor-air pollution causes hundreds of thousands of premature deaths annually in sub-Saharan Africa.
Distribution exists
Mapato Max already runs the distributor network — proximity becomes verification.
The flow
From household to registry, audited end-to-end.
01
Household enrolment
Verified households receive modern stoves through the Mapato Max distributor network. Identity, location, and baseline cooking patterns recorded.
02
Usage telemetry
Stove-use sensors and periodic field surveys log fuel switching, hours of use, and household composition.
03
Emission reductions
Methodology-aligned (Gold Standard / Verra) tCO₂e calculation per household, indexed to displaced biomass.
04
Issuance & sale
Credits issued to a registered project account and sold to corporate buyers under forward or spot agreements.
05
Margin recovery
Carbon revenue flows back through the Mapato Max fund — covering stove cost, distributor margin, and member dividend.
What buyers get
Audit-ready credits, with the household story attached.
- Vintage-tagged credits registered to verified project IDs.
- Household-level dashboards: families served, fuel switched, emissions avoided.
- Co-benefit reporting: gender, child health, school attendance, time saved.
- Optional forward purchase to anchor cohort financing at lower per-tCO₂e cost.
Status
Where we are right now.
Phase 1 · Pilot
Cohort onboarding through the Mapato Max distributor footprint in Kenya.
Phase 2 · Issuance
First credits to registry under a Gold Standard / Verra methodology pathway.
Phase 3 · Scale
Multi-cohort scale-up across East Africa with anchor corporate offtake.