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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…..
January 27, 2023
A geospatial approach to understanding clean cooking challenges in sub-Saharan Africa
Universal clean cooking is a key target under Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7, with implications for several other SDGs, such as good health, gender equality and climate
January 27, 2023
The Energy Crisis No One is Talking About: Cooking
The Russia-Ukraine conflict has helped spark energy crises around the world. One of the most under-appreciated of these crises is taking place
November 9, 2022
Evaluating the impact of pay-as-you-go LPG on Kenyan lives – Shell Foundation
Explore impacts on customers’ financial lives, wellbeing, cooking practices, and household dynamics.
November 9, 2022
To Stop Climate Catastrophe, Invest in Clean Cooking: Exploring the Lack of Funding – And Signs of Progress – In the Industry
Lack of progress on clean cooking costs the world more than $2.4 trillion each.
September 21, 2022
Roadmap for clean cooking energy to target rural masses
To focus and invest on electricity generation.
September 21, 2022
‘Clean cooking’ can help protect forests and also combat climate change by reducing pressure on woodlands and cutting air pollution
Unlocking billions of dollars in funding for a little-known climate solution.
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India's latest GST reform, being termed as GST 2.0, is more than just slashing rates. By simplifying the tax structure, cutting levies on essentials, and supporting renewable infrastructure, it's open..
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..