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Brenda Doroski U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Clean Cooking Fuels June16, 2008. The Challenge. Almost 3 billion people burn solid fuels indoors for home cooking and heating.
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Brenda Doroski U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Clean Cooking Fuels June16, 2008
The Challenge • Almost 3 billion people burn solid fuels indoors for home cooking and heating. • More than 1.5 million people, mainly women and children, die prematurely each year from breathing elevated levels of indoor smoke.
The Health Impact • 50% of the world’s population relies on solid fuels for their cooking and heating needs. • Indoor air pollution is the 4th worst risk factor (behind malnutrition, unsafe sex, and lack of clean water and adequate sanitation) source: Fuel for Life report, WHO 2006.
About the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air • Launched at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002. • Now, more than 170 public and private organizations working in 70 countries. • Already, key Partners have reported helping 1.4 million households adopt clean cooking and heating practices, reducing harmful exposures for more than 7.6 million people.
PCIA’s Mission • Improve health, livelihood, and quality of life through reduced exposure to indoor air pollution, primarily among women and children, from household energy use in developing countries.
PCIA’s Goal • Increase the use of clean, reliable, affordable, efficient, and safe home cooking and heating practices that reduce exposure to indoor air pollution.
Essential Elements of Sustainable Programs • Meet social and behavioral needs. • Develop sustainable, local markets. • Meet design/performance criteria. • Monitor impacts of intervention.
Current Partnership Activities Strengthening exchanges and networks • Partner meetings, Example: 3rd Biennial Partnership Forum, March 2007 • 110 participants from 22 countries • Documented Results To Date • Celebrated Results -- Called Attention to Effective Programs • Committed to Actions to Achieve Bold Future Results
Current Partnership Activities • Knowledge Management: • Partnership Web site: www.PCIAonline.org • Quarterly Bulletin • PCIA Design Principles for Wood Burning Cook Stoves • Capacity Building & Technical Assistance: • Stove design and performance workshops • Regional monitoring & evaluation workshops • Commercialization workshops • Technology testing
USEPA Stove Performance Testing Stove testing in emissions hood Continuous emission monitors
Identified Needs Develop voluntary stove performance standards to: • Define an “improved” stove for project implementers, funders, consumers, governments, carbon organizations • Objective evaluation of technologies leading to certification against a quality standard • Understand and transfer design features • Promote innovation • Quantify performance (CO, PM and GHG emissions, fuel use/efficiency, and safety)
Project Implementation • Partners funding pilot projects throughout the world (Africa, Asia, Latin America). • Sharing lessons learned. • Replicating projects that promote improved cooking/heating practices that are more efficient, meet users’ needs, reduce exposures, and can be produced locally. • Scaling-up effective approaches.
Initial USG Pilot Project Results • 1.3 million households educated about IAP • 70,000 homes using cleaner & more fuel-efficient practices • 350,000 people with reduced exposure to indoor smoke • 700 new small businesses producing and marketing improved fuels/technologies • 12 clean household fuels and technologies tested, improved and marketed
Conclusions • CCF have significant health, social, economic and environmental benefits. • Globally, contribute to achieving the MDGs to reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, eradicate poverty, promote gender equality, and ensure environmental sustainability. • Formation of PCIA resulted in greater visibility and support, increased networking, leveraging of expertise and resources, and meeting needs/gaps.
Opportunities for Involvement • Visit the PCIA website to learn more and join (www.PCIAonline.org) • Share lessons learned and best practices. • Utilize PCIA protocols and guidance. • Participating in regional capacity building workshops and international Forum -- 4th Biennial PCIA Forum in Kampala, Uganda March 2009