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Can Pay-As-You-Go Help Clean Up Clean Cooking?
Since 2015, the global focus on clean cooking has grown substantially, bringing more funding, research and attention from policymakers to the sector. But according to Tash Perros at the University of Liverpool, Iwona Bisaga at Loughborough University and Julia Tomei at the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources, progress remains slow, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. They examine some of the reasons behind the inertia that is plaguing clean cooking access, and explore whether pay-as-you-go business models could catalyze progress.
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- Energy, Environment, Technology
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Press Release: UpEnergy Issues World’s First Carbon Credits Linked to Electric Clean Cooking Devices Deployed in Sub-Saharan Africa
The new project provides a pathway for a growing number of African consumers to abandon the toxic burning of unsustainable, wood-based fuels and breathe cleaner air with healthier, zero-emissions electric cooking.
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- Environment, Social Enterprise, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Empowering Women to Fight Climate Change: A Program in Zambia Shows How Smallholder Farmers Can Lead the Way
Southern Africa has faced persistent drought, erratic rainfall and other consequences of climate change. And as Simon Crittle at International Development Enterprises (iDE) explains, women are disproportionately impacted by these challenges. He discusses an iDE program that trains farmers in Zambia to sell climate-smart agricultural inputs and services to their fellow smallholders — an initiative that it demonstrates the impact market-based interventions can have in preparing women farmers to play a leading role in addressing the climate crisis.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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Report: Scaling up Clean Cooking Options in Low- and Middle-Income Countries to Benefit Health and Climate
University of Liverpool presents findings from the first-ever global climate impact modeling analysis highlighting the positive climate and health impacts of scaling clean cooking options.
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- Energy, Environment, Health Care
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- Global
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COP27 Failed the Most Climate-Vulnerable
Drew Corbyn of Netherlands-based global off-grid solar body GOGLA, outlines three urgent courses of action to accelerate access to electricity.
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- Energy, Environment
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- Global
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European Investment Bank Approves €24 Billion for Business, Transport, Social and Climate Investment
The Board of Directors of the European Investment Bank (EIB) today approved €23.6 billion of new financing.
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- Education, Energy, Environment, Health Care, Investing, Technology, Transportation
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- Global
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Liberia: African Development Bank Releases $5 Million to Enhance Food Security in the Face of Climate Change
In response to global warming, Liberia is launching its Emergency Food Production Programme to increase agricultural productivity
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- Agriculture, Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Zero Waste vs. Climate Change: Why Waste Reduction Offers a Key Opportunity for Climate Action Through Private Enterprise
With the climate crisis growing increasingly urgent, pressure is mounting to find easily implementable, affordable solutions that yield fast results. As global leaders gather at the COP27 climate conference, waste reduction and management are increasingly seen as one such solution. According to Claire Arkin at GAIA, one reason for the enthusiasm around the waste sector’s climate potential is that it offers massive scope for business innovation. She discusses the connection between waste and climate change, and highlights some of the business models that are converting this global challenge into an opportunity for impact.
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- Environment, WASH
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