Sentences with phrase «fuelwood use»

DelAgua will generate verified carbon credits following an ACR - approved methodology to quantify the emissions reductions from the decreased fuelwood use from more efficient cookstoves and water filters.

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That's a pretty clearcut need given the risks attending the unfettered use of fossil fuels and the reality that 2 billion people today cook on guttering fires using fuelwood or dung harvested mainly by girls who are not going to school as a result.

As a general rule, in the SRES scenarios an increasing affluence causes energy use per capita to rise and leads to the substitution of solid fuels, such as coal and fuelwood, with energy forms of higher quality.

Developing countries mainly use fuelwood and charcoal for domestic heating and cooking, but increasingly also for commercial activities such as fish drying, tobacco curing and brick baking.

Since fuelwood is mainly used in private households and is often traded informally, it is difficult to collect good country - level data.

Estimates of wood use in Africa show the vast majority of removals are for fuelwood and that the quantities consumed in industrial applications are relatively insignificant everywhere except in Southern Africa (Figure 12).

In places where work is scarce there may be increased pressure on natural resources for subsistence use including fuelwood harvesting and slash - and - burn cultivation.

Using a general stylized forest sector management model, our study examines the economic potential of traditional industrial forests and supplemental dedicated fuelwood plantations to produce biomass on submarginal lands.