Sentences with phrase «biomass cook stoves»

Help developing countries pursue alternatives to inefficient biomass burning, such as such as improved biomass cooking stoves, solar cookers and small - scale biogas digesters.

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Rising awareness about black carbon Half of the world's population — roughly 3 billion people — cook their food and heat their homes by burning coal and biomass material like wood and animal dung, over open fires or rudimentary stoves, according to U.S. EPA.

«There are also other important measures to reduce methane emissions from coal mining, municipal waste treatment and gas distribution, for example, as well as black carbon emission reductions through elimination of high - emitting vehicles, use of cleaner biomass cooking and heating stoves, replacement of kerosene wick lamps with LED lamps and other measures,» adds Zbigniew Klimont of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria, who also took part in the study.

In the household energy and food and agriculture sectors, the proposal with the biggest impact on both climate change and public health was a 10 - year programme in India to replace 150 million indoor biomass - burning stoves with low - emissions cooking stoves, according to lead author Paul Wilkinson, also at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Around 3 billion people cook and heat their homes using open fires and simple stoves burning biomass (wood, animal dung, and crop waste) and coal.

At present, an estimated 2.8 million people die prematurely each year because of the smoky environments caused by burning solid biomass in inefficient stoves or from combustion of kerosene or coal for cooking.

Since the Local Stakeholder Consultation meeting, ECOTRUST has been included under the Improved Cook Stoves for East Africa (ICSEA) Programme of Activities (PoA) which recently added a new methodology to allow ECOTRUST members to earn more carbon credits for shifting from a dependence on non-renewable biomass fuel to the use of renewable biomass as their primary source of fuel.

Biomass fuel use, burning technique and reasons for the denial of improved cooking stoves by Forest User Groups of Rema - Kalenga Wildlife Sanctuary, Bangladesh.

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Although there more quickly renewable sources of biomass for cooking than wood, a 50 % reduction in fuel usage compared with other tradtional stoves is something to take seriously.

The VOTO, from Point Source Power, is described as a «biomass - fueled» charger, and is designed to be placed under the charcoal in the bottom of a stove before cooking.

Around 3 billion people cook using polluting open fires or simple stoves fuelled by kerosene, biomass (wood, animal dung and crop waste) and coal.

The same goes for the cooking stove powered by electricity from biomass, although it would produce considerably more air pollution than the biomass stove, and require a much larger area of sustainably managed forest.

Switching to clean fuels, typically LPG, or adopting advanced combustion cook stoves that burn biomass more cleanly and efficiently, can reduce exposure to such risks.