500 million households still use inefficient cooking methods like three-stone fires.
They emit nearly 1 billion tons of greenhouse gases a year and cause 2 million premature deaths per year from smoke exposure.
Hundreds of millions more are without access to clean water and use dangerous kerosene lamps for lighting.
UpEnergy fights poverty, improves health, and protects forests by making clean energy technologies available to people in the developing world. We finance, develop, and support distribution channels for products like high efficiency cookstoves, water purification technologies, and solar lights. To reach the most people with these technologies, we leverage the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and The Gold Standard to finance large scale projects.