September 2011

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.

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.

The Charcoal Project will present a roadmap for sustainable charcoal production and consumption in Africa at a summit of the continent’s Energy Ministers next week in Johannesburg.

This is a quick note to thank all those of you who helped us raise almost $4,500 from 60 donors to kick off our Biomass Energy Efficiency Project in Rubaare, Uganda.