In addition, using coal in large centralized plants dramatically reduces the burning
of fuel wood and waste that causes enormous indoor air pollution in developing nations.
These women depend directly on the forest, like over two billion others worldwide,
for fuel wood, water, fodder for their livestock.
Having limited education and no skills she was forced to begin the job of
carrying fuel wood.
Modern satellites can reveal large - scale deforestation, but generally miss degradation from careless logging or
fuel wood gathering, because these practices tend to leave the forest canopy intact.
At the community level, the CBR + grants are supporting practical activities including regeneration of degraded forest ecosystems, promotion of agroforestry and sustainable agricultural practices, distribution of stoves to reduce pressure on community forests
from fuel wood collection; and participatory mapping to improve the sustainable management of community forests and help local communities secure their tenure.
We met a group of former
fuel wood carriers who had been taught to weave scarves; however, with a very limited market, they weren't selling enough to be able to support their families.
Therefore, the programme reduces the drudgery of
fuel wood collection for women and young children by reducing the time required for this activity.
Therefore they substantially reduce fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions through the reduced amount of
fuel wood use from non-renewable biomass.
This has also reduced the pressure on
fuel wood harvesting from the Aberdare forest - that is just a kilometre away.
In India, rural populations largely depend
on fuel wood for their energy requirements.
The faces of the
women fuel wood carriers and their children were imprinted on our hearts and left us forever changed — and committed!
Many travellers were unaware, for example, that a tourist can easily consume five times
more fuel wood than a local, while toilet paper can take 30 years to decompose above 4000 metres.
Commodity: Different energy commodities; solid fuels (for example coal and coke), liquid fuels (diesel oil, petrol, kerosene, heavy oil etc.), gases (natural gas, landfill gas etc.), biofuel (for
instance fuel wood, wood waste, pellets) and waste (hazardous waste and other waste).
They wanted to address interwoven issues of food security,
fuel wood shortages, soil erosion, clean water and poverty.
Life on land: One household anually requires up to 1.2 t
less fuel wood.
It also recommends increased investments in green, labor - saving technologies, including irrigation systems or water harvesting, which can improve the quality of life and increase the productivity of female farm workers while benefiting the environment, through
replacing fuel wood often collected by women with cleaner fuel alternatives.
While the report says the evaluation of threats to forests remains «a delicate exercise with many uncertainties,» it lists five primary drivers of deforestation:
fuel wood extraction, agriculture, mining and oil extraction, expansion of biofuels and logging.
«We can prepare all types of meals with biogas without having to substitute
with fuel wood.
In the past, women had to trek the whole day
fetching fuel wood deep inside the forest, exposing themselves to attacks by marauding jumbos and buffalos.
This in turn has reduced the level of forest denudation through
illegal fuel wood harvesting, logging and charcoal burning.
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Range Fuels wood - to - ethanol factory in southeastern Georgia that sucked up $ 65 million in federal and state tax dollars was sold Tuesday for pennies on the dollar to another bio-fuel maker with equally grand plans to transform the alternative energy world.
CESTA's community projects construct dry composting latrines to stop contamination of precious water supplies, promote organic agriculture to cut down on the need for costly chemicals and encourage the use of efficient stoves to lessen dependence on
scarce fuel wood.
Uganda currently loses about 2 % of its forest cover annually,
fuel wood use being the second driver after land - clearing.
Another category is biomass grown in excess of what would have grown absent the demand for bioenergy, such as growing winter cover crops for energy and replacing traditional — yet inefficient —
fuel wood harvests in some poor countries with wood grown in agroforestry systems and local plantations.
The new statutes specifically recognize that emissions of carbon dioxide from combustion of biomass
from fuel wood, waste wood or forestry residuals are not considered a greenhouse gas, as long as the region maintains or increases its ability to sequester carbon dioxide through sustainable forestry.
In the Darfur refugee camps of Chad, where women face assault and death as they search
for fuel wood for their cooking fires, solar cookers are helping are keeping women and girls from attack by providing the means of cooking without leaving the camps.
Charles from Uganda makes stoves like these to reduce his use
of fuel wood from forests (they use 1/3 of the wood that an open fire needs) and keep his kitchen area safe for his children.
If she was fortunate, she would sell all
the fuel wood and start her long walk home by late afternoon.
Mulu's work as
a fuel wood carrier began long before the sun rose over Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
A subsequent visit to Ethiopia brought us face - to - face with women like Mulu, burdened with bundles of
fuel wood.
Ghana's forests, which once covered a third of its 24 - million - hectare landmass, have been degraded at an alarming rate by excessive and often illegal logging, slash - and - burn agriculture, mining and quarrying, and
fuel wood collection.
For a tropical country like Ghana, the reduction of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere involves reducing deforestation, reforestation, and exploring affordable and sustainable alternatives to
fuel wood.
The ancient Maya who built the great cities of Tikal, Palenque and Calakmul used the region's trees for building material and
fuel wood.
«Collapse of
the fuel wood resource hasn't happened yet,» says Twine.
The demand for wood as biomass for
fuel wood and charcoal making is a threat to the use of resources in Kenya and is expected to remain unchanged for many decades to come.
Lack of
fuel wood and use of poor biomass materials as alternative energy sources has aggravated forest destruction.
The demand for wood as biomass for
fuel wood and charcoal making is a threat to the use of resources in Kenya and is expected to remain unchanged for many decades to come.
First, biological wastes such as residues of crop products, trimmings from harvested trees, and carbon dioxide emitted from
fuel wood or fossil fuel combustion are all included within Ecological Footprint accounts.
Samburu communities are culturally pastoralists - 88 % of the community household income comes from livestock rearing, with 98 % of the community using
fuel wood as a source of energy, but only 30 % of the community engages in tree planting to help maintain a viable source of wood and forest system.
In just a few years, wanton and deliberate destruction of the escarpment environment through charcoal burning, logging for timber and
fuel wood, ring - debarking of medicinal trees and overgrazing has resulted to virtual depletion of forest vegetation cover.
The women and girls move longer distances in search of
fuel wood and water, exposing them to danger of attacks and sexual assaults.
Maathai began her efforts not only to help curb soil erosion, but also to help the burgeoning population become self - sustaining in its use of
fuel wood and to create an income - generating activity for rural communities.