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*Hillary on Fire About Clean Cookstoves
*/September 21, 2010 | 4:02pm/
"it was surprising Tuesday afternoon to see her focus all her
considerable talent and energy---to say nothing of the power of the
United States government---on clean cookstoves."
Clinton announced the Clean Cookstove Global Alliance---to which the
U.S. government pledges to contribute $50 million over the next 10
years. If that doesn't sound, in this day and age, like real money, the
goal is to raise a total of $250 million from other governments,
businesses, and foundations.
"As many as three billion people are gathering around open fires or old
and inefficient stoves in small kitchens, poorly ventilated houses."
Shockingly, it turns out that these primitive cooking methods are
killing two million people a year, many of them children under 5 years
old, who are breathing dangerous toxins---"about 200 times the amount
that our own EPA considers safe for breathing"---and causing pneumonia,
lung cancer, and other respiratory diseases.
...the lack of clean cookstoves is an important international
development problem, and solving it will have a lasting impact on the
environment and health.
"This is a health issue," ... "Health has been a longtime issue of hers."
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On 9/21/2010 8:03 PM, Lloyd Helferty wrote:
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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