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Oando seals pact with LAPO on access to cooking gas
Following its plan to switch millions of Nigerians from biomass to a clean and sustainable cooking gas, Oando Marketing Plc has entered into an agreement with Lift Above Poverty Organisation Microfinance Bank (LAPO) to provide soft loans for low-income households in Nigeria to purchase Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG).
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World Can Have Power, Cleaner Stoves for $48 Billion Annually, IEA Says
The world’s entire population can have electricity and cleaner stoves by 2030 if $48 billion is invested each year, the International Energy Agency said in its first estimate of the cost to end energy poverty. The sum is about the same as the combined annual capital spend of Europe ’s two biggest oil companies, ...
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Combating Poverty With Clean Energy
ABU DHABI (IDN) - Fighting poverty by promoting sustainable development and mitigating climate change is one of the priorities of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon for 2011. With this is view, he is calling for a global revolution that would benefit some 1.6 billion people in developing countries still lacking access to electricity. Addressing the Fourth World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on January 17, Ban said: "Our challenge is transformation. We need ...
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The Business Case for Clean Cooking
Every year, smoke from traditional stoves fueled by wood is responsible for 1.5 million deaths. Sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia are particularly affected. Now a new report from the World Health Organization makes the business case for investing in cleaner household fuels. The report...
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Healthcare Delivery: Consumer Products for Disease Prevention ? Part I
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. The old adage is particularly applicable to healthcare in developing countries, where millions of people die or get sick each year from illnesses that are easily preventable. The financial costs of these illnesses far outweigh the minimal...
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