Adoption and impacts of improved biomass cookstoves in rural Rajasthan

Jeuland, Marc; Pattanayak, Subhrendu K.; Samaddar, Sushmita; Shah, Ronak N.; Vora, Mansi

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“…It can also cause substantial indoor air pollution, and this is a major problem for many rural communities, especially in the developing world. Approximately 3 billion people in the world rely on solid fuels most of their household energy needs, of which~2.4 billion use biomass (mostly wood, charcoal, animal dung, or crop wastes), while the rest use coal [190,191,[210][211][212][213]. The majority of these people are in rural communities in developing nations.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This use of wood and charcoal as a primary fuel is a significant contributor to tropical deforestation, especially on the African continent [214,215]. This reliance on the burning of solid fuel indoors also means that many rural householders are exposed to considerable amounts of indoor air pollution on a daily basis [190,191,[210][211][212][213].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…One way to reduce the amount of this indoor air pollution would be to help householders with low-quality cookers and/or fuels to switch to improved products which generate less pollution [210,212,213]. However, broadly, the main problem is one of poverty and/or lack of access to electricity.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In Section 4.3.3, we noted that, in the developing world,~1.3 billion people still do not have access to an electricity supply. Moreover, we noted that~3 billion people rely on the household burning of solid fuel for most of their energy needs (cooking, heating, and lighting), and that for most of these (~2.4 billion), this fuel usually consists of wood, charcoal, animal dung, or crop wastes [190,191,[210][211][212][213]. Technically, these "biomass" fuels are "renewable energies", but as discussed in Section 3.3.1, this does not imply that their use is "sustainable".…”

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Concern for climate change is one of the drivers of new, transitional energy policies oriented towards economic growth and energy security, along with reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and preservation of biodiversity. Since 2010, the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) has been publishing annual Global Landscape of Climate Finance reports. According to these reports, US$3660 billion has been spent on global climate change projects over the period 2011–2018. Fifty-five percent of this expenditure has gone to wind and solar energy. According to world energy reports, the contribution of wind and solar to world energy consumption has increased from 0.5% to 3% over this period. Meanwhile, coal, oil, and gas continue to supply 85% of the world’s energy consumption, with hydroelectricity and nuclear providing most of the remainder. With this in mind, we consider the potential engineering challenges and environmental and socioeconomic impacts of the main energy sources (old and new). We find that the literature raises many concerns about the engineering feasibility as well as environmental impacts of wind and solar. However, none of the current or proposed energy sources is a “panacea”. Rather, each technology has pros and cons, and policy-makers should be aware of the cons as well as the pros when making energy policy decisions. We urge policy-makers to identify which priorities are most important to them, and which priorities they are prepared to compromise on.

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“…Además, numerosos estudios muestran los positivos resultados económicos, medioambientales y sociales tras introducir ICS-G en poblaciones rurales en vías de desarrollo: Etiopía (Wassie and Adaramola, 2021b), Iran (Rasoulkhani et al, 2018), India (Jeuland et al, 2020), Ghana (Dickinson et al, 2019), Pakistán (Harijan and Uqaili, 2013) o Perú (Fandiño-Del-Rio et al, 2020) entre otros.…”

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Energy plays a significant role for the sustainable development of communities. Hence, supplying reliable energy resources, which result economically acceptable, environmentally friendly and socially beneficial, arises as essential for their sustainable development. Despite the universality of such definition, the energy use is highly linked to the development degree of the countries. Thus, energy problems of developed countries sharply contrast with those of developing countries. This doctoral thesis identifies the main energy issues of both realities: severe environmental impact of energy generation models for traditional transport in developed countries and energy poverty in developing countries. The compendium of scientific papers of

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Experience and Learning with Improved Technologies: Evidence from Improved Biomass Cookstoves in Ethiopia

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Adoption and impacts of improved biomass cookstoves in rural Rajasthan

Cited by 25 publications

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Energy and Climate Policy—An Evaluation of Global Climate Change Expenditure 2011–2018

Estudio de sistemas renovables avanzados para el desarrollo energético sostenible

Experience and Learning with Improved Technologies: Evidence from Improved Biomass Cookstoves in Ethiopia

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