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Shell cookstove alliance tests UK charity rules

The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves receives funds from both Shell and the Shell Foundation. Does this meet the public benefit test for UK charities?

Published January 27, 2013
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged charity commission, cookstoves, energy for all, shell

Lessons of safe sanitation for clean cookstoves

There are many similarities between the provision of safe sanitation and the upgrading of traditional cookstoves in developing countries. The role of women in both challenges is fundamental and has been recognised in the Rio+20 debates.

Published June 22, 2012
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cookstoves, energy for all, gender, rio+20, water and sanitation

Clean cookstoves: the art of defence and diplomacy

The Center for Strategic and International Studies has held an event to mark China’s decision to join the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves. It was a both a celebration of diplomacy and an opportunity to answer critics of cookstove projects.

Published June 14, 2012
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged china, cookstoves, energy for all, US

Energy poverty news for Rio+20: June 12

The French president backs sustainable energy for all; the coal lobby backs unsustainable energy for all – and there’s more peer-reviewed science announcing awkward findings about clean cookstoves.

Published June 12, 2012
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged coal, cookstoves, energy for all, rio+20

Firewood and the forests

Is the collection of firewood in poor countries is a major driver of deforestation? Differences of opinion need urgent resolution.

Published September 7, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cookstoves, deforestation
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Sluggish in the doldrums of what happens.
Me waiting until I was nearly fifty
To credit marvels. Like the tree-clock of tin cans
The tinkers made. So long for air to brighten,
Time to be dazzled and the heart to lighten.

Seamus Heaney, from Seeing Things