Award-winning global carbon project developer, C-Quest Capital (CQC) has appointed Alfred Godwin Adjabeng as its country manager in Ghana. Founded in 2008, CQC has been developing and implementing carbon reduction and clean energy projects at scale, generating high-quality carbon credits with significant co-benefits for the poorest people across the world.

Mr. Adjabeng will manage CQC’s Ghana team and implementation partners to achieve annual targets of household energy deployments. He is the first in-country staff hired in Ghana and represents CQC’s commitment to its clean cookstove program in the region.

As a development consultant with more than a decade of experience, Mr. Adjabeng has expertise in the areas of education, agriculture, environment, technology, and public health in Africa and Europe. He has consulted on several projects including: AfCFTA, Africa Union, Africa CDC, and US Department of State programs.

“Alfred is an extraordinary talent that will be instrumental to our efforts and success to deploy one million cookstoves by 2030 in Ghana” said Sarah Stever, CQC Country Director

“According to the world bank approximately 22% of people in Ghana have access to clean cooking fuels and technologies. This is an opportunity to address a major contributor to global carbon emissions while improving the health and economic potential of the millions of women and girls that utilise open fires to prepare meals daily”.

CQC is currently operating clean cookstove projects across Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Central America, and is deploying over 6000 cookstoves a day.

“I’m looking forward to accelerating our deployment efforts in Ghana. Every stove deployed is a life changed for the better and brings us closer to a more sustainable future – I’m happy to play my part” said Mr. Adjabeng.

Biography: Alfred Adjabeng

Mr Adjabeng is a development consultant with more than 10 years of experience consulting on AfCFTA, Africa Union, Africa CDC, and US Department of State-funded projects. His development consulting experiences are in education, agriculture, environment, technology and public health in Africa and Europe.

Over a long career in the non-profit, corporate, and entrepreneurial world, he has built a strong capacity to design and execute complex business models across public, private, and civil society sectors. In the process, he has consulted for organisations of varied scale and scope and advised boards and management across multiple functional domains, on matters spanning start-up all the way through multi-level scaling.

He is the founder of School Farms, an award-winning non-profit project and a board member of Youth Opportunity and Transformation in Africa, a non-profit connecting young people in Africa with opportunities to transform their lives. He is a 2015 Mandela Washington Fellow, a 2019 Chevening Scholar and a recipient of SDGs Achiever Award.

He graduated from the University of Cape Coast with a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Science, a Master of Arts degree in Development Studies from the University of Ghana and a Master of Arts degree in Governance, Development and Public Policy from the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom.

About C-Quest Capital:

C-Quest Capital (CQC) is a world-leading carbon project developer whose purpose is to transform the lives of low-income rural families whose health, well-being, and economic welfare are most at risk from climate change. CQC does this by providing access to clean energy technologies and sustainable land-use solutions that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, combat global climate change, and improve the health of those in need.

C-Quest Capital was recently awarded ‘Best Project Developer: Energy Efficiency’ and runner-up for ‘Best Project Developer: Public health’ in Environmental Finance’s Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM) Rankings 2022. 

CQC was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Washington D.C., USA, with subsidiaries in India, Malaysia, Singapore and Cambodia and on-ground teams in Malawi and Zambia. CQC has carbon project operations in over 17 countries across Sub-Saharan Africa, Central America, and South and Southeast Asia. CQC’s Transformation Carbon projects have already reduced CO2e emissions by 23.4 million tonnes and improved the lives of over 40 million people.