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 …
How can a thriving biomass sector be developed in South Africa? This paper looks closely at two attempts to develop wood pellets as a biomass fuel and biomass electricity: the Howick wood pellet plant and the Tsitsikamma biomass plant. Both plants eventually failed, but provide instructive case studies about the …
Africa, which is on a "slow, uphill battle" to improve its bio-energy sector, needs India's expertise in improved cooking stove (ICS) and durable solar products technology, a member of a leading think tank said here Wednesday. "India and Africa have a common background. There is a lot of technology coming …
For years, wood and charcoal were the most common source of energy for cooking, but it requires cutting down trees which causes deforestation. Biomass remains the main source of energy, at 85 per cent, of which 26 per cent is charcoal, according to a recent study by the Rwanda Natural …
Net primary production (NPP) is the principal source of energy for ecosystems and, by extension, human populations that depend on them. The relationship between the supply and demand of NPP is important for the assessment of socio-ecological vulnerability. We present an analysis of the supply and demand of NPP in …
A third of the world's population uses solid fuel derived from plant material (biomass) or coal for cooking, heating, or lighting. These fuels are smoky, often used in an open fire or simple stove with incomplete combustion, and result in a large amount of household air pollution when smoke is …
American engineering student Scot Frank's solar-powered SolSource cooker was an idea born from spare time. About a decade ago, he had just completed a semester of Putonghua language courses at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was heading for a three-month teaching job at a university in Qinghai province, in …
A global agency, International Centre for Energy, Environment and Development (ICEED), has disclosed that 93,000 Nigerians die annually as a result of smoke inhaled while cooking with firewood. According to statistics released yesterday by the Agency during a one-day media training workshop on Ebonyi State Cooking Energy Programme at the …
The forest department is planning new rules in the Sunderbans, that according to them, would check man-tiger conflict. The department, in a recent proposal, said that it's planning to discourage use of clay ovens by villagers during fishing trips. They have made it clear that the idea is to stop …
Exposure to household air pollution (HAP) from inefficient biomass and coal stoves kills nearly 4 million people every year worldwide. HAP is an environmental risk associated with poverty that affects an estimated 3 billion people mostly in low- and middle-income countries. The objective of the study was to estimate the …
Household air pollution remains a dominant health risk, particularly in South Asia. Increasing international attention has focused on improved cookstoves (ICS) as a vehicle for reducing household air pollution, regional environmental and climate impacts. Biogas plants are a type of improved cooking technology. However, dissemination programs for ICS (including biogas) …
Per capita consumption has decreased from 1.3MT in 2013 to 1.17MT in 2014 Energy: The country’s per capita fuelwood consumption that is the highest in the South Asia region has declined by about 10 percent, according to renewable energy department officials. A recent study, keeping the baseline of 2013 in …
Seventy-five per cent of the houses in the country still use the traditional fuels like firewood and sun-baked cow dung for cooking food. The traditional bio-fuels are also used at hotels, schools, army barracks and religious organisations as primary fuel for cooking purposes, according to a statistics. This information was …
Modern bioenergy is a core ingredient of sustainable economic development as it plays an important role in poverty reduction and green growth. This makes bioenergy innovations critical, especially in developing countries where many households and rural communities rely on traditional bioenergy. Managing the multiple tradeoffs among bioenergy use, agricultural productivity, …
KATHMANDU: Approximately 69.8 per cent of households in urban areas use Liquefied Petroleum Gas compared to 11.4 per cent of their rural counterparts as main source of fuel for cooking. According to the Annual Household Survey 2012-13 under the heading of ‘Percentage Distribution of Households by Main Fuel Used for …
This 2014 edition of the State of World’s Forests report 2014 launched by FAO focuses on the role of socio-economic benefits provided by forests, including income and employment, wood energy and forest products in housing. It also focuses on the need to shift attention from trees to people, both for …
Energy is important both for economic development, but it also plays a major role in improving conditions at the household level. The notion of an energy poverty line is well accepted around the world. There is a large body of literature on how to measure income poverty and the reliability …
Thousands of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the Earth's atmosphere exist which play an important role in various photochemical processes. However, the global model simulations of tropospheric chemistry deal with limited data of speciated VOCs. In the present study, we have used the Global Fire Emissions Database inventory of VOCs …
Tobacco cultivation is affecting forest in Khagrachhari district as the growers need firewood and bamboo for making barn where the harvested leaves are air-cured. The growers have made around 400 tobacco barns in Sadar, Matiranga, Dighinala, Panchharhi, Manikchharhi, Mohalchharhi, Lakkhichharhi, Ramgarh and Guimarha upazilas of the district, sources said. Despite …
About 2,800 homes across the country will be using biogas energy source as an alternative to LPG and electricity by 2015. The Bhutan Biogas Project (BBP), which commenced in December 2011, has already connected 1,009 homes of farmers in five southern dzongkhags with biogas plants. The energy is used in …
Only 6.4 per cent and eight per cent of Scheduled Tribe and Scheduled Caste households are using clean fuel in rural parts. A report by the International Institute of Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, shows that the per capita emission of carbon dioxide by urban households is a shocking 16 times …
