With data from the nearly 6,000 households in the Nepal Living Standards Survey of 2010–11, this paper finds that the mean reduction in household firewood collection associated with use of a biogas plant for cooking is about 1,100 kilograms per year from a mean of about 2,400 kilograms per year.

This document contains the presentation by Ashokankur Datta and E. Somanathan on "Climate Polity in the absence of commitment", presented at National Climate Research Conference, IIT Delhi, March 5-6, 2010.