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- BURN distributes affordable stoves funded by carbon-finance subsidies across Africa.
- Carbon credits lower the $40 stove price to about $5 for low-income families.
- Investors supply upfront capital and receive revenue from emissions-reduction carbon credits.
- Critics warn that heavy reliance on carbon credits makes clean-cooking financing risky.
- Kenyan firm Koko Networks shut down in February after missing government carbon-credit authorization.
