COVID-19, Climate and Clean Fuel: Charting a path for Africa’s Inclusive Green Economic Recovery In a previous blog post for the Charcoal Project, Fatin Ibrahim shared her findings from a research project regarding the impacts of Covid-19 on participants in the biomass fuel sector in East Africa. Because these findings were compelling, an overview of […]
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Using Green Energy to fight for Women’s Health Meet Prescilla Awino Onyango of Winam Green Ventures Prescilla Awino Onyango is the founder of Winam Green Ventures (WGV), an organization in Kenya that works with women of underprivileged backgrounds in the Lake Victoria region. WGV educates and empowers women and girls with locally driven, sustainable and
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(In Mozambique) it now appears like some of the farmers who saw their crops devastated by the cyclone are turning to charcoal-making as a way of generating much-needed income.
This solution may have the perverse effect of exacerbating the deforestation, thus amplifying the impact of the next cyclone.
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Unsustainable charcoal consumption is a big problem Sub-Saharan Africa and it is increasing every year. As a result, forest cover in East and West Africa is dwindling with adverse Climate Change impacts (draught, floods, etc.). Over half of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals are adversely affected by traditional charcoal consumption. The Charcoal Project has a
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