http://blog.energy.gov/blog/2010/09/21/live-clinton-global-initiative
Live from the Clinton Global Initiative
Posted by John Schueler on September 21, 2010 at 1:00 PM
Today Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton formally announced the
Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, a new public-private initiative to
create a thriving global market for clean and efficient household
cooking solutions that will save lives, improve livelihoods and combat
climate change. Secretary Clinton outlined partnership and financial
commitments of the Alliance as part of the Clinton Global Initiative's
annual meeting.
"as part of the cookstoves alliance, the Department of Energy is lending
our scientific and technical resources to develop practical solutions
that are clean, safe and affordable. Pursuing concrete steps towards
more efficient stoves makes good financial sense, good public health
sense and good environmental sense."
- Secretary Chu
The Department of Energy will contribute $10 million over the next five
years and conduct research aimed at addressing technical barriers to the
development of low emission, high efficiency cookstoves through
activities in areas such as combustion, heat transfer, and materials
development. The Department will also work to raise additional funding
support for the Alliance through engagement with countries participating
in the second Clean Energy Ministerial meeting scheduled for April 2011.
Lloyd Helferty
On 9/21/2010 7:19 PM, Lloyd Helferty wrote:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-20/shell-un-to-back-100-million-plan-for-clean-energy-cookstoves.html
Shell, UN to Back $100 Million Plan for Clean Energy Cookstoves
By Flavia Krause-Jackson and Peter S. Green - Sep 20, 2010 12:01 AM ET
The United Nations Foundation <http://www.unfoundation.org/> and Royal
Dutch Shell Plc's
<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=RDSA:LN>Shell Foundation
<http://www.shellfoundation.org/index.php?p=home> plan to help
organize an effort to raise as much as $100 million over five years to
provide clean-burning cooking stoves to the world's poor, according to
a document outlining the plan.
To combat what they call a significant danger to women's health in the
developing world, the two foundations are seeking cooperation and
funding from other corporate, government, philanthropic and academic
entities and have received "strong expressions of interest from other
donors,"
"Smoke from cooking with primitive technologies in the developing
world is among the least-known public health catastrophes that
humanity faces,"
"More people die each year from indoor air pollution from cooking than
from malaria, yet malaria receives much more attention and resources."
Smoke from poorly ventilated cookstoves contributes to the early
deaths of more than 2 million people a year, according to the UN
Foundation.
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