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<\/p>\nKyoto-Financed Cook Stoves Fail as Health\/Climate \u201cIntervention\u201d<\/p>\n
Well you remember the much hyped program to provide free cleaner burning cook stoves in 3rd world countries because people were making smoke inside and harming the environment and the health. Indoor air quality would improve and carbon would go down if we just spent money proving free cook stoves. <\/p>\n
Well studies show no improvement. Why. People took the stoves and kept the old ones. Now they have 2 stoves inside they use the new one and they like the way the old one made bread so they stack them like in the photo. <\/p>\n
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Researchers from Canada, the United States, and India measured the indoor air quality impacts of providing modern \u201cclean cook stoves\u201d to families in southern India. The Kyoto Protocol\u2019s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) subsidizes the distribution of such devices.<\/p>\n
The researchers examined indoor air pollution concentrations and fuel use in 187 households in a village in Karnataka, India. About half the households received \u201cclean\u201d stoves, and half\u2013the control group\u2013did not.<\/p>\n
The climate benefit of the CDM-financed \u201cintervention\u201d was also nil. As Phys.Org reports:<\/p>\n
Moreover, the \u201cclean\u201d cook stoves actually \u201cincreased the proportion\u201d of household emissions composed of black carbon, a strong warming agent that darkens and melts Arctic ice.<\/p>\n
Weirdly, whether households used the new stoves or traditional stoves, indoor air pollution concentrations increased during the course of the study: \u201cAcross all households, average indoor concentrations of particulate matter, an unhealthy component of cooking smoke that can contribute to lung and heart disease, increased after the intervention stoves were introduced\u2014likely because of seasonal weather patterns or food rituals that required more cooking.\u201d<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the most shocking thing, which Phys.Org does not report. It is well known that CDM-subsidized cook stoves do not reduce household concentrations of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) to safe levels, especially in households that lack \u201cchimney ventilation.\u201d<\/p>\n
More advanced stoves that use modern fuel (liquid or gas) rather than wood emit far less PM2.5 and black carbon. However, though such stoves are \u201cideal\u201d for achieving \u201cambitious health and environmental goals,\u201d the CDM program does not support those technologies \u201cbecause they use fossil fuels, which are not considered renewable.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kyoto-Financed Cook Stoves Fail as Health\/Climate \u201cIntervention\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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