They were pitched as an upgrade to the charcoal grill and wood ... distributing thousands of stoves per day across sub-Saharan Africa. Carbon credits are financial commodities that allow companies ...

An estimated 950mn people in Africa, who could not afford gas or electricity, burnt charcoal or ... The use of carbon credits as part of the funding for cooking stoves is also overshadowed by ...

By burning wood over basic stoves for hours a day in poorly ventilated close quarters, millions of African women inhale harmful toxic fumes and smoke from charcoal, firewood, coal, agricultural ...

cut carbon emissions, and save lives. According to the Africa Coalition for Sustainable Energy and Access (ACSEA), over 70 per cent of rural households rely on firewood and charcoal for cooking as ...

Chart: The Economist Charcoal has fuelled Africa ... efficient stoves, has stopped selling its charcoal model there and is promoting electric ones instead, subsidised by carbon credits.

A summit this week aims to kickstart Africa's push against ... in annual funding Dirty stoves a major cause of harmful air pollution Cooking accounts for 2% of global carbon emissions LAGOS ...

A Kenyan start-up has tapped international carbon ... burn charcoal, Koko’s customers use bioethanol, made in east Africa from sugarcane, on the company’s specially designed twin-hob stoves.

Because they often work at night and target seemingly idle public land, they operate with relative impunity while decimating forests in parts of Africa ... families run charcoal stoves to keep ...

The burning of charcoal, an age-old practice in many African societies ... Trees suck in planet-warming carbon dioxide from the air, but burning charcoal emits the heat-trapping gas instead.