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October 19, 2024
Funding the Fight Against the World’s Oldest Fuel Source: How New Financing Mechanisms in Clean Cooking Can Succeed Where Grants Have Failed
The use of biomass fuel has remained consistent over the centuries.
October 19, 2024
Why cooking causes 4m premature deaths a year
Almost 4m premature deaths each year, making it the world’s third-biggest cause.
June 14, 2024
How perception and innovation are influencing adoption of clean cooking solutions
Charcoal is the primary source of fuel for nearly 90% of Tanzanians and its use is ingrained in the daily life of many communities to the extent that it can be considered a cultural practice
June 13, 2024
The renewable fuel source that is transforming kitchens in low-income households
On a busy street in the bustling Sinza area in the city of Dar es Salaam, there is a small and ambitious company by the name of Consumers Choice Limited (CCL). The company’s mission is to provide bioethanol fuel
June 13, 2024
India: Women Entrepreneurs in Bihar Help Improve Air Quality through Cleaner Cookstoves
Giving large-scale access to LPG or electric stoves may take time, the government of Bihar is addressing the issue in the short term by boosting the use of cookstoves
March 13, 2024
Ten days and a thousand hills: Witnessing the transition to electric cooking in Rwanda
Namudu Esther and many other women living in urban households participated in the electric cooking pilot in Kigali, Rwanda, a positive shift has been made in what cooking means to her. ….
March 13, 2024
Can clean cookstoves ride out the carbon markets storm?
One of the world’s largest, but most overlooked, public health crises comes from an unlikely source: cooking. The World Health Organization estimates that 3.2 million people died , opens new tabin 2020 from household air pollution…..
March 13, 2024
PowerUP: Scaling Clean Cooking Through Carbon Markets
It is a clean-tech start-up based in Uganda. It uses carbon finance to deliver affordable, tech-enabled electric cookstoves to customers in low- and middle-income countries…..
March 13, 2024
Cookstove carbon offsets overstate climate benefit by 1,000%, study finds
Cookstove projects are one of the fastest-growing carbon offset schemes but research finds carbon benefits are vastly overstated…..
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Reimagining Sports in CSR: From Tokenism to a Vehicle for Multiplying Impact
In 2023–24, Indian companies spent about ₹1,396 crore of their CSR budgets on sports — just 4% of the total ₹34,909 crore Indian corporates spent on CSR that year. Most of the rest went to edu..
Interactive SHG Map of India: 7.5 million Women Self Help Groups are spread across 27 States and 6 UTs in India
Under the National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM), India has 7.5 million Women Self Help Groups (SHGs) spread across 27 states and 6 Union Territories. Each of these small, self-governed, and peer-co..