The Virtual Cylinder Recirculation Model (vCRM) is FuelTree’s digital platform that connects households, gas marketers, and financiers. It tracks LPG cylinders and other clean-cooking devices — and links them with food-distribution programmes — creating a transparent system that records energy and food access while generating verifiable carbon credits.

FuelTree’s mission aligns directly with Africa’s key government policies — the Decade of Gas Initiative, the Energy Transition Plan (ETP), Clean Cooking Alliance and Project FUKU, to name a few, which aim to make clean cooking gas accessible to every home.

With the recent approval of the National Carbon Market Framework under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement for many countries, states and private investors can now earn verified carbon credits for these initiatives.

The vCRM provides the digital and financial backbone that ties all of this together — making it easy to track results, verify impact, and unlock climate finance from clean cooking, food security, and other green activities.

• ⁠ ⁠Households receive affordable LPG cylinders (3 kg – 12.5 kg) (in the future, bundled with food or household-support packages).
• ⁠ ⁠Each cylinder is digitally tagged and tracked through the vCRM app.
• ⁠ ⁠Every refill or delivery records carbon savings and food-distribution data.
• These verified savings are converted into carbon credits, which FuelTree helps trade on recognised international markets.

• ⁠ ⁠Households: Access to cleaner energy, better health and nutritious food at lower cost.
• ⁠ ⁠States & Communities: Jobs, better air quality, and new local revenues.
• ⁠ ⁠Businesses: Verified ESG impact, new customer data, and access to carbon-credit revenue.
• ⁠ ⁠Country: Foreign-exchange inflows, improved energy access, and measurable progress toward national clean-cooking and food-security goals.

• ⁠ ⁠Governments – to roll out state or regional clean-cooking and food-security programmes.
• ⁠ ⁠Private-sector organisations – to sponsor cylinders or food baskets, or integrate ESG and CSR goals.
• ⁠ ⁠Oil & Gas and Energy Companies – to expand LPG distribution while meeting climate-reporting obligations.
• ⁠ ⁠DFIs, Impact Funds & Carbon Investors – to finance large-scale, high-integrity carbon projects.
• ⁠ ⁠NGOs & Community Groups – to support local implementation and outreach.

All vCRM projects use international carbon standards such as Verra and Gold Standard.

Our Monitoring, Reporting & Verification (MRV) process is AI-enabled and blockchain-secured to ensure complete transparency.

FuelTree aims to reach 5 – 10 million households within five years, generating up to 25 million tCO₂e reductions annually and unlocking billions in carbon-credit and clean-energy revenues.

FuelTree offers multiple entry points for both public and private sponsors — from local pilot projects to large-scale climate-finance partnerships. Partners benefit through climate credits, climate finance, brand visibility, verified ESG impact, operational data, and participation in international climate showcases such as COP 30 in Brazil and other global or regional sustainability events, to name a few.

The vCRM also advances the objectives of integrating clean cooking, food access, and poverty reduction for measurable social and environmental impact.