Win-win scenarios at the climate-development interface: Challenges and opportunities for stove replacement programs through carbon finance

► Cookstoves and carbon form critical, if asymmetrical, climate-development interface. ► Stoves and carbon are important but overlooked area in climate-development literature. ► Sustained use of improved cookstoves brings win-win climate-development benefits. ► Significant barriers exist to realizing both development and climate benefits. ► Mutually supported benefits and impediments are possible but highly contextual.