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Recent Developments, <br /> Key Innovations, and <br /> Insightful Reports

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Insightful Reports

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India: Getting the off grid solar power going

Of all the developing nations present in the Doha Climate Change Conference, India was the only one with about 75 per cent of 226 million households without power. According to an IFC report, Indian households spent up to US$2.2 billion on heavily subsidized kerosene for their lighting needs. Again, India’s […]

January 7, 2013

Halton Foundation supports the Himalayan Cookstove Project

The Halton Foundation recently granted an amount of US$30,000 to the Himalayan Cookstove Project for their ongoing work of improving cooking conditions for the poor, rural residents of the trans-Himalayan region. Read more here.

January 7, 2013

‘Emerging Cooking Solutions’ appointed Climate Solver 2012 by WWF

Swedish clean-tech start-up company, ‘Emerging Cooking Solutions’ has recently received the award of Climate Solver 2012, as appointed by the WWF for an ingeniously simple cookstove model. Their business model comprises of using pelletized biomass in the place of wood and other forms of biomass in traditional stoves so as […]

January 7, 2013

Videos demonstrating clean cooking apparatus

This post has videos embedded of 2 very innovative clean burning cookstoves. One is the most efficient model of the Rocket Stove, and the other is called a ‘Kelly Kettle’, which cooks using twigs and pine cones. See the videos here.

January 7, 2013

How giving residents of Nepal clean cookstoves helps saves lives

In Nepal, rural households are no different than the rural households in India or Africa – biomass materials like wood and animal dung are used in an inefficient and polluting method to cook food. The Himalayan Cookstove Project attempts to help Nepali households access cleaner cookstoves despite their geographical disadvantage, […]

January 7, 2013

The Enabling Environment: Global Guidelines and National Policies for Indoor Air Quality

This report by the RTI International is a research regarding the current statistics with respect to the indoor air pollution scenario in the developing world, the programmes in effect to counter this problem and an exhaustive list of the results of indoor air pollution. Read the report here.

January 7, 2013

Household Light Makes Global Heat: High Black Carbon Emission From Kerosene Wick Lamps

This report presents new data on how 7-9per cent of kerosene consumed by widely used simple wick lamps is converted to carbonaceous particulate matter that is nearly pure BC or black carbon. These estimates put kerosene sourced BC estimates to 20 times their previous estimates, suggesting that these could be […]

January 7, 2013

Tuberculosis and Poverty: Why Are the Poor at Greater Risk in India?

This report discovers a link between the income and poverty status and incidence of TB, as according to self-reported cases of TB in India. It concludes that the poorest sections of the society contract diseases like TB, its most common cause being low body mass index and indoor air pollution. […]

January 7, 2013

Cameroon’s Microfinance National Strategy underway

The Government of Morocco with support from the UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) recently organized a workshop with the intended purpose of drawing up a national strategy for microfinance. This strategy would both make people more aware and educated in the field of microfinance while also support the scale up […]