Sentences with phrase «biomass for cooking»

Under the 2016 World Energy Outlook's New Policy Scenario, around 2.3 billion people across Africa and Asia are projected to continue to rely on traditional uses of biomass for cooking in 2030.

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.

Why the part about black carbon from fossil fuels being a greater cause of warming than burning biomass is important is that usually the causes of this soot are all lumped together — stopping burning biomass for cooking and heating, plus cleaning up diesel engines get equal attention.

Almost two out of every five rely on wood or other biomass for cooking or heating.

When it comes to clean - energy deployment, I like supporting integrated cooking — paths to help replace burning biomass for cooking.

Resource substitution efforts designed to replace traditional highly - polluting combustion of biomass for cooking heat - based industrial processing and indoor heating may satisfy the requirements necessary to provide long - lasting, truly sustainable techniques.

However, strong population growth in developing countries, especially sub-Saharan Africa, has meant that the number of people relying on biomass for cooking has grown by 400 million people, despite growing awareness of the associated health risks and decades of programmes targeting access to modern cooking.

In developing Asia, 1.65 billion people (43 % of the population) rely on biomass for cooking.

It houses the largest proportion of global poor (30 %), around 24 % of the global population without access to electricity (304 million), about 30 % of the global population relying on solid biomass for cooking and 92 million without access to safe drinking water.

In India, a major contributor to poor air quality is the practice of burning wood, dung and similar sources of biomass for cooking and heating.

According to the IEA, about 2.7 billion people — about 40 percent of the global population — still rely on the traditional use of biomass for cooking.

Not exact matches

«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.

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.

The mix of fuels and technologies for clean cooking in rural areas varies, depending on locally available resources and infrastructure, but in total around 1 billion people in rural areas gain access via improved biomass cookstoves, while LPG and biogas provide for the remaining 1 billion people.

However, the corresponding rise in carbon - dioxide (CO2) emissions of around 0.2 % in 2030 is more than offset as reducing the biomass used for cooking provides a net reduction in greenhouse - gas emissions, which would save the equivalent of around 165 Mt of carbon - dioxide equivalent from methane and nitrous oxide.

In developing Asia, the share of biomass in the residential sector declines from around 50 % today to 33 % in 2030 as demand for gas and electricity for cooking increases in the New Policies Scenario.

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Biomass Heating Systems Are a Proven Technology — One That Has Been in Use for Thousands of Years since humans began burning wood to cook and keep warm.

Most biomass is burned for cooking and heating, but it can also be converted into electricity and liquid fuel.

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.

Noting that in the developing countries some 1.6 billion people still lack access to electricity and about 2.4 billion continue to rely on traditional biomass like fuelwood for cooking and heating, Annan calls for intensified efforts to promote renewable energy sources for the poor.

Lorin Symington: Smoke from burning biomass indoors for cooking and heating is responsible for more than 4 million deaths per year, and untold millions of cases of pneumonia, chronic respiratory conditions and cataracts.

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For example, increasing combustion efficiency in households cooking with biomass or coal could have climate benefits by reducing CAPs and at the same time bring major health benefits among poor populations.

According to data collated by IEA (2006) the number of people using biomass resources as their primary fuel for cooking will increase (Table 4).

Furthermore, reduction in biomass consumption directly reduces cooking costs for the project population permitting higher savings for end users.

Current estimates indicate that 1.2 billion people (~ 18 % of global population) live without access to electricity and more than 2.7 billion depend on wood or some other form of biomass, including animal dung, for heating and cooking (IEA, 2016).

Most of our people, they depend on forest resources for their livelihood and in most cases they depend on biomass energy for cooking.

Its contribution to final energy demand is five times higher than wind and solar PV combined, even when inefficient and unsustainable traditional biomass, such as the use of wood and dung for cooking, is excluded.

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

According to the company, the VOTO is designed to be powered by burning charcoal, but can also use wood or other varieties of biomass that are used for cooking in the developing world.

Two model homes would show off systems that handled «biological nutrients» and «technical nutrients» 40 further homes would showcase integrated potable and grey water community systems, and a biomass gasification facility for homes» heating and cooking.

A staggering 3 billion people still rely on traditional biomass such as wood and charcoal for their heating and cooking needs.

But the researchers discovered that black carbon in the central Tibetan Plateau came primarily from biomass; meaning the daily routine of burning yak dung for cooking and home heating contributed significantly to the region's air pollution.

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.

In addition to outdoor air pollution, indoor smoke is a serious health risk for some 3 billion people who cook and heat their homes with biomass, kerosene fuels and coal.