Gold Standard certified: Saving trees in Uganda
In Uganda 93% of the population essentially relies on wood and charcoal to cook their daily meals and this contributes to forest degradation. This project, supported by CO2logic and others, others seeks to help save trees, reduce forest degradation and ensure better living conditions for the local population by reducing harmful airborne pollutants in their household.
The project facilitates the widespread access to improved cookstove technologies throughout the country by supporting local cookstove manufacturers with technical assistance as well as marketing and distribution; activities that ultimately makes the improved cookstoves more accessible and affordable for the local population.
Each stove helps reduce wood and charcoal consumption by up to 50% compared to other cooking methods and saves US $100 per year per family. Each cookstove avoids over 2 tons of CO2 per year on average; the equivalent of a return journey for one person from Brussels to Washington D.C.
The cookstoves also create a reduction in the household air pollution that frequently cause respiratory illnesses such as Pneumonia among others. According to the World Health Organization, an estimated 4.3 million people annually from household air pollution.
SOURCE: http://www.who.int/indoorair/en/
This is greater than the number annual deaths from Malaria.
SOURCE: http://www.who.int/gho/malaria/epidemic/deaths/en/
This carbon abatement project would not exist without the financial support coming from carbon offsetting. The project and its CO2 reductions are independently registered and verified under the internationally recognised Gold Standard label.
www.co2logic.com
In Uganda 93% of the population essentially relies on wood and charcoal to cook their daily meals and this contributes to forest degradation. This project, supported by CO2logic and others, others seeks to help save trees, reduce forest degradation and ensure better living conditions for the local population by reducing harmful airborne pollutants in their household.
The project facilitates the widespread access to improved cookstove technologies throughout the country by supporting local cookstove manufacturers with technical assistance as well as marketing and distribution; activities that ultimately makes the improved cookstoves more accessible and affordable for the local population.
Each stove helps reduce wood and charcoal consumption by up to 50% compared to other cooking methods and saves US $100 per year per family. Each cookstove avoids over 2 tons of CO2 per year on average; the equivalent of a return journey for one person from Brussels to Washington D.C.
The cookstoves also create a reduction in the household air pollution that frequently cause respiratory illnesses such as Pneumonia among others. According to the World Health Organization, an estimated 4.3 million people annually from household air pollution.
SOURCE: http://www.who.int/indoorair/en/
This is greater than the number annual deaths from Malaria.
SOURCE: http://www.who.int/gho/malaria/epidemic/deaths/en/
This carbon abatement project would not exist without the financial support coming from carbon offsetting. The project and its CO2 reductions are independently registered and verified under the internationally recognised Gold Standard label.
www.co2logic.com
