Emerging Cooking Solutions

New ::: Ready for Action – Reports and analyses on implementing Article 6 activities ::: Latest issue of the Carbon Mechanisms Review released! In this issue, we take a look at implementation and ways to develop robust Article 6 activities. We begin with an analysis on ensuring quality carbon credits and present the work of the Carbon Credit Quality Initiative, followed by a report on innovative ways to develop robust cookstove programs. We then look at insights and take-aways from the capacity-building activities of the SPAR6C program. All this is rounded off by an analysis of the state of the UNFCCC negotiations after the successful reset in Bonn. Authors include: Thomas Forth, Felix Fallasch, Lambert Schneider, Nora Wissner, Isabel Haase, Cristina Urrutia, Hannes Böttcher, Sophia Lauer, Martin Burian, Mattias Ohlson, Shaun Conway, Marshall Brown, Benjamin Heras Cruz, Yliana Rios Benavidez Find out more at https://lnkd.in/gtDv9699

Energy Security in Africa with Affordable, Home-grown Cooking BioFuel On my way to the IEA Clean Cooking Summit in Paris, where Emerging Cooking Solutions will be featured. I wrote this letter to the various Presidents and Excellencies that will participate. Dear Presidents and Excellencies, I understand Your concerns about the reliance on charcoal, which contributes to widespread deforestation and public health issues, and operates largely within an informal sector that yields no tax revenue. Additionally, You are seeking ways to provide modern cooking solutions across the nation.   You are also concerned about importing LPG, fearing it could negatively impact the national currency and necessitate subsidies, potentially costing hundreds of millions of USD annually.   Moreover, there is currently no available funding for the required $400 per person investment to enhance electricity supply to Tier 4 levels, necessary for supporting modern e-cooking technologies, in rural areas. You are also worried that each induction stove could increase peak electricity demand by up to 2000W per household.   Concerns that locally produced ethanol could compete with local food production and that it is one of the most expensive modern fuels, unless heavily subsidized by carbon credits, are also well-founded.   While all three solutions—LPG, electricity, and ethanol—play crucial roles in the energy transition and have significant health and environmental benefits, none are both affordable for everyone and suitable for off-grid applications, essential for reaching all segments of Your population. However, pellets can fill these important gaps.   In the global North, the biomass industry is well-established, but not in Africa. Perhaps Your country has access to vast amounts of unused agricultural residues such as bagasse, coffee husks, rice husks or peanut shells, and there are opportunities to encourage farmers to cultivate Napier grass or engage in agro-forestry – all excellent for making pellets.   Consider the potential: converting a million tonnes of bagasse or Napier grass into pellets could provide modern, green, and affordable cooking solutions for approximately 2 million households, or about 10 million people. This approach of “home grown fuel” is affordable, pro-health, off-grid and achievable: the footprint required is just 200 km² to produce a million tonnes of Napier grass.   A secret until now is that the development of high-end pellet stoves has taken a huge leap in the past year. The idea that “biomass cannot be clean” is simply not true.   I invite You to collaborate with us through our Article 6.2/ITMO digital-MRV platform (currently rolled out in Zambia), developed in partnership with tech provider IXO. I also encourage You to engage with other stakeholders in the advanced biomass sector. Together, we can make biomass pellets a pivotal fuel for the energy transition. Michael Franz, Daniele Guidi, Anders Georg Arvidson, Shaun Conway

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