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New finance for old (technology) problems? Saving the planet with better cook stoves
Research attempting to answer this question has mainly focused on the cook’s household, finding that factors such as income, education, and access to credit limit adoption and sustained use. But this demand-driven narrative ignores the other side of the equation: the producers and distributors. Increasing awareness by both practitioners and the policy community has led to growing calls for a new focus on stove supply barriers and innovative policy tools to increase ICS sales.
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- Environment, Technology
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A Simple, Painless Way Governments Can Help the Poor and the Environment
In Haiti there’s a 15 percent tariff and tax on clean cookstoves. Based on elasticity of demand, Dalberg projects that if improved cookstoves’ taxes and tariffs were eliminated, their annual sales would increase by 13 percent, from 185,000 to 209,000. This in turn would mitigate costs associated with health and environment consequences of traditional cooking techniques.
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- Environment, Health Care
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Improved Cookstoves Boost Health and Forest Cover in the Himalayas
Environmental organisations like Bangalore-based Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment (ATREE) are helping mountain communities minimise the health and environmental risks involved in using firewood for cooking in confined places.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Neeri’s Stove Reduces Smoke, Promises Better Rural Health
With World Health Organisation (WHO) identifying indoor pollution being significantly responsible for the declining rural health and high mortality rate in India, National Environmental and Engineering Research Institute (Neeri) has developed ‘Neerdhur’, a novel multi-fuel domestic cooking stove.
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- Energy, Health Care
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- South Asia
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The Podcast: When Life Hits You In the Head With a Brick …
Max Chinnah, CEO and co-founder of Terraoak Inc., is from Nigeria, where his grandmother died from complications related to breathing air polluted by cookstoves. He's convinced his Genesys Cooker can improve the lives of millions around the world.
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