Clean cooking
BURN Manufacturing (Nairobi)
Stove-maker turned carbon heavyweight: BURN manufactures efficient cookstoves, then uses credit revenue to keep them affordable for Kenyan households. TIME placed it on its 100 Most Influential Companies list in 2024.
Registry listings verified November 2026 via Gold Standard & Verra public records.
co2balance
Its Kenyan household stove credits were followed all the way to a retirement in the UK by investigative journalists in 2023 — a working demonstration that the audit chain holds from kitchen to registry.
Registry listings verified November 2026 via Gold Standard & Verra public records.
Forests and rangelands
Northern Rangelands Trust — Northern Kenya Rangelands Carbon Project
Few projects anywhere match this one's rangeland scale. Its registry file is worth reading: suspension, independent review, then reinstatement by Verra in June 2026. Confirm current status with any seller.
Registry listing verified November 2026 via Verra public records, including the June 2026 reinstatement.
Wildlife Works — Kasigau Corridor REDD+
Dryland forest between Kenya's Tsavo parks, protected under the world's first VCS REDD+ credit issuance back in 2011.
Registry listing verified November 2026 via Verra public records.
Farms and soil
Vi Agroforestry (western Kenya)
Smallholder farmer groups around Lake Victoria have run agroforestry carbon work with this organisation for decades — among the longest-lived programmes of its kind.
Registry listing verified November 2026 via Verra public records.
Boomitra
Measures soil carbon from satellites with AI on top, working through smallholder networks; Verra registered its East Africa Grassland Restoration Project in August 2025.
Registry listing verified November 2026 via Verra public records (registered August 2025).
Coastal blue carbon
Mikoko Pamoja (Gazi Bay)
Community-run, Plan Vivo-certified mangrove conservation on the south coast — the template other community blue-carbon projects copy.
Registry listing verified November 2026 via Plan Vivo public records.
Where the buyers are
On the demand side, portfolio managers such as Climate Impact Partners package these projects for corporates, while marketplaces such as Hummingbirds — $59 million raised in February 2026 for Kenyan and wider African sales — shorten the path for smaller tickets. UpEnergy's East African operations add electric-cooking supply under Gold Standard.