Energy

Are policies in Africa conducive to sustainability interventions in the charcoal sector?: a preliminary assessment of 31 countries

This publication presents the key findings from a preliminary assessment of the policies of African countries relevant to charcoal value chains.

Publication Date: 
22/03/2023
FAO
Tags:
Charcoal, Firewood, Africa
Energy

Review of woodfuel biomass production and utilization in Africa: a desk study

A new UN Environment Programme (UNEP) desk study launched at the 17th African Ministerial Conference on the Environment in Durban, South Africa, calls for urgent action to address the production and consumption of biomass as a source of energy in Africa.

Publication Date: 
15/11/2019
UNEP
Tags:
Biomass, Household Energy, Firewood, Charcoal, Africa
Energy

Examining wood-energy systems with integrated assessment and landscape models

This paper explores how to combine models to better understand the interactions between energy, economy, and land use in regions that rely on woodfuels. Fuelwood and charcoal are critical sources of energy throughout sub-Saharan Africa.

Publication Date: 
29/05/2019
Rob Bailis
Stockholm Environment Institute
Tags:
Biomass, Firewood, Africa, Economy, Land Use, Household Energy
Energy

Changing energy use in rural Africa with power from solar, clean stoves…and women

Widespread use of fuelwood and charcoal for cooking and heating is a notable barrier to achieving development and conservation goals in sub-Saharan Africa, yet previous attempts at introducing

Publication Date: 
03/05/2019
Mongabay
Tags:
Energy, Solar Energy, Chulhas (Cookstoves), Women, Firewood, Charcoal, Rural Electrification, Africa, Renewable Energy
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
Energy

Book examines connection between gender and cooking energy in Sub-Saharan Africa

Providing energy for home use, especially for cooking food and heating living spaces, without contributing to climate change demands creativity and perseverance.

Publication Date: 
15/03/2019
PHYS
Tags:
Energy, Climate Change, Africa, Women, Natural Gas, Firewood, Charcoal
Forests

'Cutting everything in sight': Ugandans vow to curb rampant deforestation

GULU, Uganda, March 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The convulsive rhythms of local "lakubukubu" music blast from the back of a pickup truck in the dusty town of Pajule, where two towering trees

Publication Date: 
12/03/2019
Thompson Reuters Foundation (TRUST)
Tags:
Forests, Deforestation, Uganda, Firewood, Charcoal, Africa, Illegal Trade
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)
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

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