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EMERGING COOKING SOLUTIONS
Digital twins for
carbon offsetting.
2.8 billion people still cook over an open fire with “ Around the world, more people
firewood and charcoal. And around the world, more die because of smoke from cooking
people die because of smoke from cooking than than from malaria, tuberculosis,
from malaria, tuberculosis, and AIDS combined. and AIDS combined.”
Furthermore, the climate impact of charcoal and
firewood burned for cooking is as great as that of We have developed a pellet stove – which now has
the entire aviation industry. At Lund-based Emerg- internet connectivity – and integrated operations
ing Cooking Solutions, we tackle these problems for local pellet production, distribution, custom-
through our operations in Zambia, Malawi, and er financing, and carbon credits. Our stove was
Mozambique (under the name ‘SupaMoto’), where recently cited in the journal Nature as one of two
we have been working for healthier and cleaner pellet stoves in the world that meet the health
cooking since 2013. requirements for ‘modern cooking’. Each stove
saves approximately 3.5 tonnes of CO2 per year.
The pellet production utilises surplus biomass and is
therefore renewable and both environmentally and
economically sustainable. We can proudly state that
our integrated cooking solution curtails deforesta-
tion and develops the national economy. It also saves
time and improves both the health and household
finances of its users.
Our business model is to lend the stoves at no
cost to people in vulnerable urban and rural areas,
provided they buy our pellets, which, in addition to
being environmentally friendly and healthier, are
50% cheaper than charcoal.
We see ourselves as innovators, and since
launching our connected stoves in 2022, we have,
in collaboration with the company ixo, developed a
completely new blockchain-based platform where
companies and individuals can offset their carbon
footprint, by ‘buying’ our stoves. This is done by cre-
ating ‘Niftys’ – digital twins of the connected stoves
