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Join PCIA’s upcoming webinars

Only a few days remain to register for the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air’s (PCIA) webinar on Impacts of Household Fuel Consumption from Biomass Stove Programs in India, Nepal and Peru. This is the second in the PCIA stove testing webinar series taking place this summer.

Michael Johnson, of Berkeley Air Monitoring Group, will present the results of in-home assessments conducted with fellow PCIA Partners in Nepal, India and Peru.

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The Road to Sustainable Charcoal — What world figures tell us and not.

Today we begin posting the first of a dozen paper’s presented in June at a symposium in Arusha, Tanzania, on Sustainable Charcoal. The event, co-organized by The Charcoal Project, heralded the launch of a year-long initiative that will culminate in an International Conference on Charcoal and Solid Biomass in 2012.

Today’s topic focuses on the absence of reliable data on woodfuel and charcoal use from a national and global perspective.

Hot Tip: this is sure to be a top-shelf priority at next year’s conference!

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