Energy

About 85% of Ujjwala beneficiaries in 4 States still use earthen stoves

Study recommends that the scheme should move beyond benefits for women alone to change household behaviour

Publication Date: 
08/04/2019
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Energy, LPG, Natural Gas, Chulhas (Cookstoves), Indoor Air Pollution
Health

Towards universal access to clean cooking solutions in Sub-Saharan Africa

A transition away from the use of fuelwood and charcoal for cooking can prevent hundreds of thousands of premature deaths caused by household air pollution.

Publication Date: 
05/04/2019
Anteneh G. Dagnachew, Paul L. Lucas, Detlef P. van Vuuren, Andries F. Hof
PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
Tags:
Chulhas (Cookstoves), Firewood, Charcoal, Indoor Air Pollution, Child Health, Africa, Green House Gases
Air Pollution

Pollution from burning wood, coal indoors kill 2.8 million every year: IEA

When Joyce Njenga replaced her traditional open-fire hearth with an energy-saving stove, she was pleased it lived up to its promised efficiencies: using less firewood and halving cooking times.

Publication Date: 
26/09/2018
Tags:
Air Pollution, Health Effects, Firewood, Coal, Indoor Air Pollution, Kenya, Africa, Global, Kerosene, Chulhas (Cookstoves)
Air Pollution

Fighting silent death via environmentally-friendly stoves

ADDIS ABABA- Every single year, thousands of Ethiopian women and children die because of indoor air pollution. This is an instance of a silent death.

Publication Date: 
14/08/2018
Ethiopia Herald (Ethiopia)
Tags:
Air Pollution, Air Pollution Control, Chulhas (Cookstoves), Health Effects, Ethiopia, Indoor Air Pollution, Deforestation, Forests, Charcoal, Africa
Energy

Tanzania: For Less Charcoal Consumption, Use Energy Saving Stove

ADVOCACY on the use of energy saving of fuel efficient stoves has always focused on rural areas where presumably almost all residents, (approximately 90 percent of all households) use firewood for

Publication Date: 
10/08/2018
All Africa
Tags:
Energy, Chulhas (Cookstoves), LPG, Tanzania, Charcoal, Deforestation, Firewood, Africa
Climate Change

"Promoting LPG, clean woodburning cookstoves or both? Climate change mitigation implications of integrated household energy transition scenarios in rural Mexico"

This study examines the expected mitigation of greenhouse gases (GHG) and black carbon (BC) emissions associated to the transition from traditional biomass to clean fuels and clean woodburning cookstoves (CCS) in the Mexican residential sector for the period 2014-2030. We developed a spatial-explicit model at a county-level to understand the GHG trade-offs associated to different spatial-temporal CCS and clean fuels dissemination strategies. A business as usual (BAU) and three alternative scenarios with different targets for CCS and LPG dissemination were constructed.

Publication Date: 
25/07/2018
Montserrat Serrano-Medrano, Carlos Alberto García-Bustamante, Victor Manuel Berrueta & et al
Environmental Research Letters
1-24
Tags:
LPG, Chulhas (Cookstoves), Household Energy, Mexico, Firewood, Biomass Burning, Climate Mitigation
Air Pollution

GHACCO calls for comprehensive national policy on clean cookstoves

The Ghana Alliance for Clean Cookstoves and Fuels (GHACCO) has called on the Government for a comprehensive and dedicated national policy on clean cookstoves and fuels sector in Ghana.

Publication Date: 
23/07/2018
Ghana Web (Ghana)
Tags:
Air Pollution, Chulhas (Cookstoves), Ghana, Health Effects, Africa
Climate Change

Improved biomass cook stoves for climate change mitigation?: evidence of preferences, willingness to pay, and carbon savings

This paper investigates household preferences for improved cook stoves using a choice experiment administered in rural Ethiopia, and the cost-effectiveness of an improved stove for reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. In Ethiopia, about 96 percent of household energy demand is fulfilled by biomass.

Publication Date: 
28/06/2018
Sahan T. M. Dissanayake, Abebe Damte Beyene, Randall Bluffstone, & et al
The World Bank
Tags:
Climate Change, Climate Mitigation, Chulhas (Cookstoves), Biomass, Ethiopia, Africa
Energy

IEA praises India for improvement in access to energy

India’s efforts in providing energy access to those without it have come in for praise by the International Energy Agency (IEA).

Publication Date: 
04/06/2018
Business Line (New Delhi)
Tags:
Electricity, India, Chulhas (Cookstoves), LPG, Biomass, Energy
Climate Change

Progress and opportunities for reducing short-lived climate pollutants across Latin America and the Caribbean

This technical report, Progress and Opportunities of Reducing Short-lived Climate Pollutants across Latin America and the Caribbean, reviews examples of initiatives and measures that have successfully reduced emissions of black carbon, methane and some hydrofluorocarbons in Latin America and the Caribbean, the three short-lived climate pollutant

Publication Date: 
01/05/2018
Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC)
Tags:
Climate Change, Air Pollution, South America, Caribbean, Black Carbon, Methane, Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), Transport, Chulhas (Cookstoves), Bricks, Livestock, Wastewater Treatment, Municipal Solid Waste, Waste Management, Coal, Mining

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