Media Highlights – March 2016
Selected international coverage of clean cookstoves and fuels news.
José Andrés Is in Cuba as the US Culinary Ambassador
https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/03/21/jose-andres-in-cuba-with-president-obama/
Three billion people at risk from cooking emissions
https://www.iso.org/iso/home/news_index/news_archive/news.htm?refid=Ref2061
The Damaging Effects of Black Carbon
https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2016/03/22/the-damaging-effects-of-black-carbon/
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India's Once-Gleaming Golden Temple Dulled by Air Pollution
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/indias-gleaming-golden-temple-dulled-air-pollution-38050928
Infosys launches Biomass Cook Stove Project in Koppal district of Karnataka
https://netindian.in/news/2016/03/26/00037369/infosys-launches-biomass-cook-stove-project-koppal-district-karnataka
Opinion: A climate skeptic calls for a carbon tax
https://www.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2016/march/opinion-climate-skeptic-carbon-tax
Use cleaner stoves to cut 'household air pollution'
https://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/2016/03/20/22064
Nigerian company promotes energy efficient stoves
https://tvcnews.tv/?q=article/nigerian-company-promotes-energy-efficient-stoves
Getting Worse: Mexico City Air Pollution Twice the Amount; First Alert Raised Since 2005
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/mar/21/half-world-cooking-stone-age-world-health-organisation-report-dr-maria-neira
WHO: An estimated 12.6 million deaths each year are attributable to unhealthy environments
https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2016/deaths-attributable-to-unhealthy-environments/en/
Hoskin family: Cooking up a solution to third world health and emissions problems
https://www.dailyuw.com/news/article_21af0cec-e5af-11e5-9f52-af5fb8d9b364.html
Stove saves fuel, money, and lives
https://www.dailyuw.com/news/article_21af0cec-e5af-11e5-9f52-af5fb8d9b364.html
Almost half the world cooking as if it were the stone age, WHO warns
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/mar/21/half-world-cooking-stone-age-world-health-organisation-report-dr-maria-neira
Black carbon, methane, HFCs – the short lived climate pollutants explained
https://www.dispatchtribunal.com/short-lived-climate-pollutants-explained/17434/
Five things to know about 'short-lived pollutants' and their climate impacts
https://www.680news.com/2016/03/08/five-things-to-know-about-short-lived-pollutants-and-their-climate-impacts/
The Carbon Counters: Tracking Emissions in a Post-Paris World
https://e360.yale.edu/feature/carbon_counters_tracking_emissions_in_a_post-paris_world/2970/
Jikokoa expanding to West Africa as demand rises
https://www.hivisasa.com/kiambu/business/125895
New age jikos designed to reduce charcoal consumption
https://www.mediamaxnetwork.co.ke/k24-tv/204495/new-age-jikos-designed-to-reduce-charcoal-consumption/
National oil to roll out cooking gas project
https://kbctv.co.ke/index.php/national-oil-to-roll-out-cooking-gas-project/
All Set to have first bio-digester enables pollution-free stove
https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Tiruchirapalli/city-to-have-its-first-biodigester-in-community-toilet/article8316367.ece
Be a good neighbor! The Water Project and Project Cookstoves
https://highschool.latimes.com/van-nuys-senior-high-school/be-a-good-neighbor/
Envirofit aims to double biomass cook-stove sale by 2020
https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/envirofit-aims-to-double-biomass-cookstove-sale-by-2020/article8309756.ece
Offsetting clean fuel price hikes with sound policies
https://www.scidev.net/south-asia/climate-change/news/offsetting-clean-fuel-price-hikes-with-sound-policies.html
Company provides stove, gas
https://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=343917
Pollution in northern India affecting West Bengal
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/pollution-in-northern-india-affecting-west-bengal/articleshow/51206883.cms