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Jean Kim Chaix

Kim Chaix is the Founding Director of The Charcoal Project and is also Director of Strategic Impact for Rainforest Foundation USA.

So you wanna know about charcoal, eh?

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* Are you considering a stove project that includes charcoal or fuel briquettes?

* Do you know why the impact of woodfuel on the environment is smaller than charcoal?

* Did you know you can create micro grids in rural areas using improved charcoal kilns?

* Did you know that Dar es Salaam consumes enough charcoal each year to fill a swimming pool as long as the distance between Paris and London?

The Charcoal Project is guest-editing the upcoming issue of the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air‘s bulletin on charcoal and alternative solid biomass fuels.

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Postcard from Rubaare: A man, a problem, a solution.

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In researching the fuel briquette solutions, we discovered there were multiple options available and no decision tree on how to choose between them.  The Charcoal Project team spent the first six months researching and talking to developers, implementers, manufacturers and others with experience in the field.

Our research eventually led us to Isaac Owor, founder of EnviroCoal, a fuel-briquette manufacturer based in the capital, Kampala.

 

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Wood Energy in Africa: the next gold rush?

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Recent news out of Uganda about the displacement of tens of thousands of people from their land to make way for a large-scale biofuel plantations raises question about governmental oversight and corporate social responsibility on the part of of foreign investors.

It is all the more urgent that African nations, with the help of appropriate international agencies, begin putting place the regulatory framework that will lead to the responsible and sustainable exploitation of wood energy resources in the context of low-carbon economic growth and high-value export generation.

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PCIA bulletin: Biogas for Household & Institutional Use

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The PCIA latest bulletin focuses on biogas for both household and institutional use, and presents the local, national and regional-level efforts to promote its use in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Biogas-promoting organizations with decades of experience share their strategies for partnership-building, education and training, innovative solutions to financing, and marketing biogas’s added benefits.

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Webinar: All about new carbon finance methodology for cookstoves 27/9/11

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Are you interested in learning more technical details on how to access carbon finance for your cookstove project? Have you heard about The Gold Standard (GS) Foundation’s new methodology for cookstove projects, and want to learn more about it?

If so, register today for the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air (PCIA) webinar entitled “Innovations in Version 3 of the Gold Standard Methodology” on September 27, 2011.

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Study: Charcoal and patterns of forest degradation in Tanzania

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A study presented at the June symposium on charcoal organized in Arusha, Tanzania, finds that,

1. At current rates, no high value timber will be left in Tanzania’s coastal forest in 37 years.

2. The Tanzanian government lost $53 million USD in 2005. This is due to the fact that 96% of the timber harvest was undeclared.

3. China imports 10 times more timber from Tanzania that total declared imports.

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