We are pleased to forward the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves’ invitation to the Clean Cooking Forum 2013: Igniting Change, Fueling Markets & Sparking Adoption from March 18-22 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The goal of the Forum is to further a market-based approach to the global adoption of clean cooking solutions, and to continue to drive innovations in research, market development, standards and testing, project finance, and policy development.
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RFA: Looking for Field Studies to Evaluate Performance, Use, and Adoption of Clean Cookstoves & Fuels
The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves has released a Request for Applications (RFA) for Field Studies to Evaluate Performance, Use and Adoption of Clean Cookstoves and Fuels.
VIDEOS: Can Clean Cookstoves and Energy Poverty go viral
To support this goal, the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves came out a few weeks ago with several videos that have been in the making for some time now. (The first four videos on the Alliance’s YouTube channel are the ones in question. And, yes, Julia Roberts does appear in most of them!)
NEWS: Nigeria: Growing Danger of Charcoal Smuggling
This increasing demand for charcoal as an alternative source of fuel in homes and some industries in Nigeria has snowballed into a smuggling ring across national borders, further destroying the already diminishing number of trees in the country.
Joint UNIDO and Kenya biomass project to begin in June
Kenya and UNIDO launch 5-year biomass project. This is welcome news considering that over 68 percent of the population in Kenya use biomass for cooking, whilst Kenya’s Ministry of Energy estimates that up to 95 percent of the energy consumed in rural areas is in the form of fuel wood, agricultural residue and animal waste.