Sentences with phrase «cooking fuel»

This means that not much would be left for the billions of poor who have no access to electricity or clean cooking fuel or modern means of transportation.

Each stove greatly reduces expenditure on charcoal and thereby improves the economic situation of families, who often spend a significant portion of their income on cooking fuels.

As trees disappeared, straw and other crop residues were used for cooking fuel.

The books in the law libraries would serve a much more socially useful function as cooking fuel than they do being gawped at by illiterate students.

The latter included many examples of beautiful hope and simplicity, like the guy leaving a good corporate job to help run a social start - up called Wonderbags, which uses insulated bags to dramatically reduce the dangers and expense of cooking fuel in poor villages in Africa.

By the mid-1800s, coal gas and solid coke had replaced candles, animal oils, and wood as the most important sources of light, heat, and cooking fuel in many European and American cities.

In Africa as a whole, the illegal charcoal trade — the main cooking fuel — most likely brings in more money than the illegal drug trade.

Polluting cooking fuels as well as cars contribute to the poor air quality.

He said, «The low LPG consumption in Nigeria has resulted in heavy dependence on kerosene and firewood as primary domestic cooking fuel.

He was part of the team that introduced sugarcane - based charcoal as a cheap cooking fuel, and his solar disinfecting plastic bags purify water for drinking.

Buildings contribute 80 percent of all the greenhouse gas emissions in New York City mainly as a result of their associated electricity consumption, burning of fuel oil or natural gas to provide heat in the cold months and burning of non-electric cooking fuels such as gas.

An additional $ 600 - 800 billion is needed, the report says, including at least $ 45 billion for electricity expansion, $ 4.4 billion for modern cooking fuels, $ 394 billion for energy efficiency, and $ 174 billion for renewable energy.

Yet one billion people in the world today have no access to electricity, and roughly three times that number use dirty cooking fuels, whose smoke is killing more than four million people a year.

For the squeamish, then, Kaplan Gordon also covers the capture of methane gas from compost heaps that can be stored and used as a regular cooking fuel, with no need for your food and your compost pile to be in even close proximity to each other.

The Co-operative Group guarantees that all carbon offset payments will support its Climate Care projects, such as the provision of household «biogas» systems that provide renewable cooking fuel and wind turbines in India.

«There's a massive opportunity to create big markets for clean cooking fuels,» Kyte said.

The energy poverty numbers are as staggering as they are heartbreaking — 1.3 billion people lacking electricity, and 2.7 billion people using wood, charcoal, or dung for cooking fuel.

In rural areas, the population relying on biomass decreases from 2 to 1.8 billion people in 2030, but nearly 60 % of rural populations in developing countries still rely on biomass as their main cooking fuel.

Solar Cookers International spreads solar cooking techniques and safe water awareness worldwide, focusing on developing countries that have plentiful sunshine, diminishing sources of cooking fuel, and limited safe drinking water.

Perhaps not having access to heat, cooking fuel and hot water may just change their tune!

Charcoal may be the ugly duckling of household heating and cooking fuels.

A World Health Organization report says clean water and cooking fuels could save many of these infants» lives by preventing diarrhoea, malaria and pneumonia.

Overall, the work shows that, of worldwide sources, India's wildfires, cooking fuel and fossil fuel burning contribute the most soot to the mountain range and plateau region, followed by fossil fuel burning in China and other East Asian countries.

Angela's reluctant acceptance takes her, along with readers, to a place few see: a stark area of Afghanistan where women are imprisoned for «marriage crimes,» families burn garbage for cooking fuel and archaeologists fight as hard as soldiers to save 2,000 - year - old Hellenistic treasures.

Charter yachts are equipped with roller furling (most), inflatable dinghy, BBQ (SBSC does not provide propane canister for BBQ) self - tailing winches, VHF radio, AM / FM / CD stereo, GPS, cooking fuel and complete galley set - up.

To understand why India, despite its fast - growing emissions, has demanded and gotten what its environment minister called «carbon space,» just do a side by side comparison of the United States, where the average person's activities result in about 17 tons of carbon dioxide emissions a year, and India, where 400 million people still lack an electric light or clean cooking fuel and where per capita annual emissions are 1.9 tons per person.

One company that is working to make a difference in this arena is Solavore, a women - owned business that is lead by the belief that «cooking fuel should be healthy and as abundant as sunlight.»

This fuel switch reflects a growing awareness of the harmful effects of household air pollution related to cooking, increased policy efforts to boost the uptake of LPG and natural gas and rising urbanisation, which makes it easier to access clean cooking fuels.

Synthesizing gas from coal is great for curbing urban air pollution, particularly if the gas substitutes for burning coal as a domestic heating and cooking fuel, as is still common in China.

Finally, Total and SEforALL also signed a Delivery Partnership, that will support work on the Electrification Accelerator network and expanding global access to clean cooking fuels and technologies.

In the forest country itself, issues of governance become significant, as does the need to satisfy the demand of local populations for things like cooking fuel.

He wrote a research paper titled «Cooking with the Sun; A solution to mitigate deforestation for cooking fuel,» and also made an 8 - minute documentary short on the subject.

An estimated 1.3 billion people lack electricity and 2.7 billion people rely on wood, charcoal, or dung for cooking fuel.

(99 % of Haiti's forests have been decimated, not for building materials, but for cooking fuel.)

And all cooking fuels — whether biomass pellets, ethanol or LPG — need to be on the table as a scalable solution.

Getting Real on Clean Cooking: Static progress on access to clean cooking fuels and technologies was the most sobering trend by far in the SDG7 progress report.

Uneven progress on achieving access to sustainable energy for all New report shows only modest improvements in electrification and access to clean cooking fuels 3 April 2017

Palm oil is a controversial commodity found in products ranging from cookies and cosmetics to biodiesel and cooking fuel.

Sub-Saharan Africa continues to suffer from a major energy deficit, with hundreds of millions of people lacking access to electricity and clean cooking fuels.

Total will support several areas of SEforALL's work, including its Electrification Accelerator network, Cooling for All and expanding global access to clean cooking fuels and technologies.

Some of that is no doubt because lack of power infrastructure and poverty means that many people have no choice but to chop wood for heat and cooking fuel.