This publication presents the key findings from a preliminary assessment of the policies of African countries relevant to charcoal value chains. The main objective of this study is to assess the extent to which national energy and environmental policies and strategies in Africa have the potential to provide enabling conditions …
Girls' and women's health is in transition and, although some aspects of it have improved substantially in the past few decades, there are still important unmet needs. Population ageing and transformations in the social determinants of health have increased the coexistence of disease burdens related to reproductive health, nutrition, and …
A high-level international body headed by the former UN secretary general Kofi Annan has urged the west to help Africa finance a new $20bn (£13bn) fund to provide low-cost solar panels for the two thirds of the continent’s population that lacks access to energy. The annual Africa Progress report says …
In order to support as critical input to air quality forecasting task during Commonwealth Games (CWG) – 2010 in mega city Delhi, we have developed a high resolution emission inventory of major atmospheric pollutants. For the same, inventories of ozone precursors like NOx and CO are developed over a domain …
Moshi — THE introduction of energy-saving stoves in Moshi municipality is making a difference in the lives of people and contributes to environmental conservation. Beneficiaries of the project say that apart from using less firewood, they turn challenges of climate change into opportunities for development. A total of 31 households …
India's policy-makers have three big energy goals: providing everyone with access to energy, securing energy supply and trying to limit carbon emissions without encumbering the nation's growth. These important concerns miss the point.
Women spend approximately 374 hours every year collecting firewood in India finds this new study released by Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves. It focuses on the gender impacts of clean cooking solutions in households as well as women's involvement in improved cookstoves markets, in India, Bangladesh and Nepal. The Global …
Debates on emissions and climate change are dominated by inter-country inequalities, usually ignoring within-country inequalities. In this paper, we address the question of carbon space sharing in India across different classes after economic reforms were introduced in 1991. We establish using household consumption surveys that the elites in India are …
Since the US Clean Air Act’s passage in the 1970s, there have been a steady stream of reports correlating exposure to air pollutants with a variety of health impacts. But in the early days, much of that information was too rudimentary to be of much use. Monitoring technology has improved …
MORE villagers in the country are expected to benefit from bio-energy plantations project initiated by Tanzania Forest Research Institute (TAFORI), with the aim of reducing pressure on natural forests for charcoal and fuel wood production, according to Director General Dr Lawrence Mbwambo. He went on to tell this newspaper over …
Eighty four-year-old Kalekye Kyundua has depended on firewood for domestic use in her lifetime. Having known no other cheap source of energy, Kyundua and her extended family have watched tree cover on their farm shrink over the years without being replenished. Like millions of other rural households in Kenya, Kyundua's …
Presentation by Dr. Sarath Guttikunda of UrbanEmissions.Info at Anil Agarwal Dialogue 2015: Poor in climate change, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, March 11 – 12, 2015.
Presentation by Kirk R. Smith, Professor of Global Environmental Health University of California, Berkeley at Anil Agarwal Dialogue 2015: Poor in climate change, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, March 11 – 12, 2015.
Presentation by Dr. Mukesh Sharma & Umed Paliwal of Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur at Anil Agarwal Dialogue 2015: Poor in climate change, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, March 11 – 12, 2015.
Presentation by Nivit Kumar Yadav of Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) at the Anil Agarwal Dialogue 2015: Poor in climate change, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, March 11 – 12, 2015.
Presentation by Damodar Bachani of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare at the Anil Agarwal Dialogue 2015: Poor in climate change, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, March 11 – 12, 2015.
Mobile courts in Rangpur and Jhenidah districts fined 16 brick kilns for illegal activities on Tuesday and the day before. In Rangpur, five brick kilns were fined Tk 1.88 lakh by a mobile court in Pirganj upazila of the district on Tuesday afternoon, reports our correspondent. The court led by …
CHONGQING - Residents in Southwest China's Chongqing municipality have been banned from making smoked bacon, a traditional method of preserving pork, as it is blamed for causing foul air in the city. Starting from Jan 20, the Chongqing's Environment Protection Bureau (CEPB) joined forces with the municipal departments of public …
Over half of all wood harvested worldwide is used as fuel, supplying ~9% of global primary energy. By depleting stocks of woody biomass, unsustainable harvesting can contribute to forest degradation, deforestation and climate change. However, past efforts to quantify woodfuel sustainability failed to provide credible results. The researchers present a …
Global production of all major wood products continued to show steady growth in 2013 for the fourth consecutive year, according to new data published by FAO. While the production of industrial roundwood, sawnwood, wood pellets and wood-based panels have fully recovered from the economic downturn in 2008-2009, global production of …
