Where Elephants Roam, Struggle For Clean Cookstoves Continues
, children’s program collaboration, which includes the US Department of State and the US Agency for International Development as well as The Walt Disney Company Africa.The importance of the youth connection is also surfacing in the clean cookstoves movement, which seeks alternatives to traditional cooking fuels that strip habitats, hinder household economic development, contribute to climate change, and pose significant public health risks to women and their families.
strategy, in recognition of the “vital role of youth in achieving universal access to clean cooking, contributing to the cleaner, healthier, and more sustainable future that young people need to thrive.” “Ninety percent of the world’s 1.8 billion youth live in developing countries where 2.4 billion people still rely on polluting fuels and stoves to cook their food,” CCA points out. “The negative impact of traditional cooking on young people is substantial, both in terms of the size of the youth population affected and the cross-cutting nature of the adverse impacts on youth, including health, climate, local environment, education and employment.
“Black carbon has nearly a thousand times the warming impact of carbon dioxide per unit of mass. Even though black carbon only stays in the atmosphere for a few days, when it returns through precipitation, it accelerates the melting of snow and ice and damages plant health and soil,” they add. Project Regeneration draws attention to a wide variety of technology solutions including home-made biogas generators to substitute for burning animal waste and compost. They also highlight off-continent entrepreneurs who are working with local partners to introduced cleaner cookstoves Africa, such as the company
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