This is the trailer to a short documentary on the charcoal sector in Africa portraying the specific example of the city of Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania. The film was published jointly by the World Bank and the Government of Tanzania in August 2009.
We featured the longer version of this film in a post back in August.
Are you interested in learning more about stove performance field-testing? Do you want to know how fuel efficiency and emissions test results correlate between lab and field studies in Rwanda, Laos and Bangladesh?
If so, register today for the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air’s (PCIA) webinar titled “WBT and Controlled Cooking Tests in Rwanda, Laos and Bangladesh” on March 13, 2012. This is the fifth in a series of PCIA webinars devoted to stove performance testing.
According to the Uganda National Environment Management Authority, pressure on land, water, forest and biological resources has dramatically increased to meet the needs of a growing population, leading to a loss of 76 percent of the country’s forest cover.
Geoffrey Oryema, the district leader of Nwoya, said poverty and lack of a meaningful livelihood source were the driving factors for environmental destruction.
“What do you expect somebody in the village without money to pay for his needs such as soap, salt, medicine and food to do?” Oryema said. “People are struggling to find alternatives to survive.”
LONDON, Jan 30 (Reuters) – The world is running out of time to make sure there is enough food, water and energy to meet the needs of a rapidly growing population and to avoid sending up to 3 billion people into poverty, a U.N. report warned on Monday.
As the world’s population looks set to grow to nearly 9 billion by 2040 from 7 billion now, and the number of middle-class consumers increases by 3 billion over the next 20 years, the demand for resources will rise exponentially.
In order to solicit input from stakeholders worldwide on proposed clean cookstove standards, PCIA is hosting three standard setting webinars, the first of which was held today.
Please consider participating in one of the upcoming webinars to learn more about the the voluntary, interim cookstove “Tiers of Performance” that we (PCIA) plan to finalize through the International Workshop Agreement.