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cookstove is a stove or appliance used for cooking food. It is specifically designed to provide heat and cooking surfaces such as burners or ovens for preparing meals.
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Earlier this week, the Green Belt Movement co-hosted an East Africa regional meeting with the Global Alliance for
Clean Cookstoves in Nairobi, Kenya.
ClimateCare's partner Co-op Insurance recently launched a campaign to highlight its ongoing support for the Gyapa efficient
cookstove project in Ghana.
For example, choosing to offset through a Gold Standard
efficient cookstove project can generate as much as $ 55 of health impacts, $ 93 livelihood impacts and $ 3 of employment outcomes for every tonne offset, while a tonne of carbon offset through a Gold Standard safe water project can deliver $ 117 of health impacts [iii]
«Poor people like nice things, too,» said Don Feil, president and CEO of EnterpriseWorks / VITA, an organization that, among many projects, facilitates the distribution of clean
cookstoves in Ghana.
When the first series
of cookstove projects came online in the 1970s and»80s, engineers throughout the developed world designed several excellent stoves in their laboratories and distributed them around the world.
While swapping out biomass
cookstoves with more efficient ones, or with electric stoves powered by clean energy sources, improves indoor air quality for their users (an important issue unto itself), cleaning up fossil fuel burning really ought to be getting more effort.
For example, one 2012 study looked at what happened when randomly selected households in Orissa, India, were given cleaner -
burning cookstoves with chimneys.
Composting uses the Drawdown Reduction and Replacement Solutions (RRS) Model to evaluate the global organic municipal solid waste stream; clean
cookstoves uses the RRS model to evaluate terawatt hours (therms) of heating energy for cooking.
For example, in urban areas where people tend to purchase their fuel, rather than harvest it, it is often easier to sell the
new cookstove on its cost - saving efficiency.»
In Uganda — and since last year in Kenya — more than 1,000 Living Goods «community health promoters» in bright blue T - shirts make their rounds through urban communities and rural neighborhoods, peddling an assortment of malaria medicine, fortified cereals, vitamins and soap, as well as larger items such
as cookstoves, solar lanterns and bednets.
ClimateCare has led clean
cookstove programmes since 2004 when it started work on the first methodology to obtain funding through carbon finance.
According to the Department of State, these new initiatives will include «efforts to advance women's clean energy entrepreneurship; a global partnership to promote affordable Internet access in poor communities; a new commitment to the Global Equality Fund which aims to protect the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons worldwide; and new investments in the clean
cookstoves sector».
Sascha Lafeld, First Climate's CEO congratulated the project developer stating, «First Climate has a long - standing, trusting partnership with the
Uganda Cookstoves project and we are very pleased to see this important project thrive.
Cookstove design depends on what food items are being cooked, what types of wood or other fuel is available and general customer acceptance.
Today Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected to announce a $ 50 million pledge of seed money, distributed over five years, to help the Global Alliance for Clean
Cookstoves provide 100 million clean - burning
These problems are compounded by crop damage from ozone partly produced by
cookstove emissions, and from surface dimming that results as airborne black carbon intercepts sunlight.
ClimateCare also published ambitious targets to cut 20 million tonnes of CO2 and improve the lives of 20 million people by 2020 — calling for more Corporate and Government partners to
fund cookstove and other integrated Climate + Care programmes.
Located in one of Accra's busiest urban markets, Timber Market, Gifty has been selling the Gyapa
™ cookstove along with other household and kitchen items for years.
But, in Gadgil's opinion, most
cookstoves at that time failed to catch on because, while their testing in idealized laboratory settings might have been top - notch, field testing was practically nonexistent.
The goal, according to Solomon, is to create technologies across all scales, from a biochar -
producing cookstove for sustenance farmers to mid-level, industrial pyrolyzers to make biochar for small farms or commercial fertilizers.
A staggering 5,145,312 Gold
Standard cookstove credits, from 39 projects have now been issued using the methodology written by ClimateCare with more projects entering the pipeline, leading to even greater impact in future.
A Citizenship Ambassador for the Obama Administration and an ambassador for the Global Alliance for Clean
Cookstoves launched by Hillary Clinton, he also runs his own initiatives including World Central Kitchen, plus education and training programmes in countries such as Haiti.
In contrast, soot produced by burning biofuels is often a product of dung - or wood -
powered cookstoves used indoors and in densely populated areas.
-- Replace indoor cooking and heating fires with clean - burning
cookstoves fired either by wood, manure or other biomass or, even better, methane.
January 13, 2017 Clean - burning stoves improve health for new mothers in Nigeria In a clinical trial in Nigeria that replaced biomass and
kerosene cookstoves with clean - burning ethanol stoves, researchers were able to reduce by two - thirds the risk of high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease in pregnant women.
ClimateCare: Tom Morton, Director: «The Gyapa ™
cookstove program is a great example of the type of Climate + Care project that we specialise in.
Clean
cookstove distribution projects, which saw sizable demand from voluntary buyers in 2012, saw both transacted volumes and prices reported by the sector decline by 26 % and 18 %, respectively, transacting 4.3 million tonnes at an average price of $ 9.2 / tonne.
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Cookstoves Significantly Reduce Fuel Requirements, Indoor Air Pollution
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One of the more promising findings came from Africa, where the number of offsets from projects that promote the use of clean
cookstoves among the rural poor surged at least 40 % and probably much more.
(See related, «
Cookstove Smoke is «Largest Environmental Threat,» Global Health Study Finds.»)
Cookstove types used around the world (A) Three - stone, minimally tended, wood fuel.
In this case, a fire - activated fuel cell is stacked on to the function of a
charcoal cookstove that is already being used to cook food, which then generates enough power to charge a combination power pack and LED light unit.
He walked into the kitchen and the welcome nimbus of heat from a great
coal cookstove.
On Sept. 16, you can help cook (then eat) breakfast on the hearth and
period cookstove from 8 - 11 a.m., followed by a baseball game played by 1860 rules featuring the Greenbush Dead Citys.
From 7:30 a.m. to 1:45 p.m., Norway's Foreign Affairs Minister Borge Brende, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the administrator of the US Agency for International Development, Rajiv Shah, and Ghana's Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration Minister Hanna Tetteh speak at a UN Foundation's Global Alliance for Clean
Cookstoves event; Conrad New York hotel, 102 N. End Ave., Manhattan.
At 11:15 a.m., EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy visits New York City to speak at first ministerial - and CEO -
level Cookstoves Future Summit, Milano School of International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy, 66 W. 12th St., Manhattan.
The IPCC foresees swiftly expanding alternative energy,
defines cookstoves as «renewable» and omits nuclear