The PCIA latest bulletin focuses on biogas for both household and institutional use, and presents the local, national and regional-level efforts to promote its use in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Biogas-promoting organizations with decades of experience share their strategies for partnership-building, education and training, innovative solutions to financing, and marketing biogas’s added benefits.
September 2011
The black sheep in Africa’s renewable energy family
Absent in the majority of the speeches we heard at last week’s summit of African Energy Ministers in Johannesburg were references to biomass, either as a renewable fuel with the potential to deliver significant energy for economic growth, or for its contribution to sub-Saharan Africa’s energy balance.
Webinar: All about new carbon finance methodology for cookstoves 27/9/11
Are you interested in learning more technical details on how to access carbon finance for your cookstove project? Have you heard about The Gold Standard (GS) Foundation’s new methodology for cookstove projects, and want to learn more about it?
If so, register today for the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air (PCIA) webinar entitled “Innovations in Version 3 of the Gold Standard Methodology” on September 27, 2011.
NEWS: Uganda flirting with charcoal energy crisis
We’re in Johannesburg this week to present a vision of hope to Africa’s Energy Minister, especially those in sub-Saharan Africa with populations that depend heavily on unsustainable charcoal production and consumption.
The Charcoal Project to unveil sustainable charcoal plan to Africa’s Energy Ministers
The Charcoal Project will present a roadmap for sustainable charcoal production and consumption in Africa at a summit of the continent’s Energy Ministers next week in Johannesburg.