Can it be that the emphasis on finding market-based solutions to energy poverty alleviation and the large-scale deployment of improved cookstoves is just not practical? “Probably,” say a group of researchers investigating the pressures placed on grass-roots NGOs to adopt market-based approaches to solving household energy and health issues in the developing world.
Resources
“Stop throwing stoves at black carbon”
A Yale University workshop says improved cookstoves may not be the best solution to reducing the global warming effect of black carbon.
Peace Corps launches site providing resources for improved cookstoves and ovens
This post comes to us via the good people at the IAP (Indoor Air Pollution Updates). We thought it might be of interest to our visitors as a resource.
Peace Corps – Improved Stoves and Ovens – Welcome to the Peace Corps Clean Indoor Air/ Improved Cooking Toolkit, your one-stop source for reliable and relevant information about improved cookstoves, ovens and biogas applications appropriate for Volunteer communities.
Bob, Luis: It’s about energy efficiency and CC, guys.
A group of Latin American NGOs has called on the World Bank and IDB (InterAmerican Development Bank) to pay greater attention to energy efficiency and Climate Change mitigation and adaptation.
Uganda: Forest Cover, Wetlands Vanishing
(Kampala) National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) of Ugandawarns that the country’s environment is in danger. as much of its forest cover and wetlands could soon disappear.