We may all need to be heading to Washington soon. With tents and cookstoves.
February 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
We may all need to be heading to Washington soon. With tents and cookstoves.
Himalayan glaciers are melting fast. Nearly a third of ice loss on the southern Tibetan Plateau is from black carbon soot - from diesel, brick kilns, cookstoves, crop fires.
August 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Himalayan glaciers are melting fast. Nearly a third of ice loss on the southern Tibetan Plateau is from black carbon soot - from diesel, brick kilns, cookstoves, crop fires.
A global standard setter for voluntary carbon projects has approved three new methods for projects that reduce emissions by switching to cleaner fuels used in domestic cookstoves, hoping to boost buyer confidence reut.rs/41xFLhQ
Global carbon offset standard approves three clean cookstove methods
A global standard setter for voluntary carbon projects has approved three new methods for projects that reduce emissions by switching to cleaner fuels used in domestic cookstoves, hoping to boost buyer confidence in the credits they generate.
reut.rs
March 7, 2025 at 6:34 AM
A global standard setter for voluntary carbon projects has approved three new methods for projects that reduce emissions by switching to cleaner fuels used in domestic cookstoves, hoping to boost buyer confidence reut.rs/41xFLhQ
I didn't know he designed an efficient stove!
(I design efficient cookstoves for the developing world myself)
(I design efficient cookstoves for the developing world myself)
March 18, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I didn't know he designed an efficient stove!
(I design efficient cookstoves for the developing world myself)
(I design efficient cookstoves for the developing world myself)
While not as bad as solid fuel cookstoves, cooking on gas is still much worse for health than electric because of NOx pollutants
🔥 The hidden health crisis in our kitchens:
While many enjoy clean electric cooking, 40% of the world burns wood, dung, or coal—often in open fires.
Even gas stoves emit harmful pollutants.
Toxic pollutants leads to respiratory and heart diseases, causing millions of premature deaths.
While many enjoy clean electric cooking, 40% of the world burns wood, dung, or coal—often in open fires.
Even gas stoves emit harmful pollutants.
Toxic pollutants leads to respiratory and heart diseases, causing millions of premature deaths.
March 7, 2025 at 11:23 AM
While not as bad as solid fuel cookstoves, cooking on gas is still much worse for health than electric because of NOx pollutants
Fossil gas is not “clean”, it’s a health hazard and a cause of global heating. Clean cookstoves are electric or solar
“Clean cooking is freedom. This is life-expanding, life-enhancing and game changing. This is what the IEA should be focused on and – I’m thrilled – is focused on.”
US Secretary Chris Wright at the #IEAMinisterial. He is a co-chair of our Clean Cooking Summit in Nairobi on 9-10 July.
US Secretary Chris Wright at the #IEAMinisterial. He is a co-chair of our Clean Cooking Summit in Nairobi on 9-10 July.
February 25, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Fossil gas is not “clean”, it’s a health hazard and a cause of global heating. Clean cookstoves are electric or solar
the company I travel with sponsors local projects everywhere they operate, and in Tanzania it's clean cookstoves! we visited them last summer! but first we visited a home WITHOUT one just to understand how bad it is. planeterra.org/maasai-clean...
Maasai Clean Cookstoves – Planeterra
planeterra.org
June 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
the company I travel with sponsors local projects everywhere they operate, and in Tanzania it's clean cookstoves! we visited them last summer! but first we visited a home WITHOUT one just to understand how bad it is. planeterra.org/maasai-clean...
Or Africans could use African-made induction hobs powered by solar… ashden.org/awards/winne...
BURN - Ashden
2025 Ashden Award winner, Burn is providing high-quality affordable cookstoves, made in Africa.
ashden.org
October 25, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Or Africans could use African-made induction hobs powered by solar… ashden.org/awards/winne...
Christine Cikesa presenting her research on the externality effects of cleaner cookstoves #WCERE2026 #EconSky
June 30, 2026 at 10:34 AM
Christine Cikesa presenting her research on the externality effects of cleaner cookstoves #WCERE2026 #EconSky
Subsidies for clean cookstoves can abate carbon dioxide at only $7 per ton of CO2.
We account for issues like imperfect additionality, stove breakage rates, non-usage or low usage by some buyers, and others.
Read my article with @joshtdean.bsky.social in Climate Change Economics: lnkd.in/gw8hr9Mu
We account for issues like imperfect additionality, stove breakage rates, non-usage or low usage by some buyers, and others.
Read my article with @joshtdean.bsky.social in Climate Change Economics: lnkd.in/gw8hr9Mu
August 3, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Subsidies for clean cookstoves can abate carbon dioxide at only $7 per ton of CO2.
We account for issues like imperfect additionality, stove breakage rates, non-usage or low usage by some buyers, and others.
Read my article with @joshtdean.bsky.social in Climate Change Economics: lnkd.in/gw8hr9Mu
We account for issues like imperfect additionality, stove breakage rates, non-usage or low usage by some buyers, and others.
Read my article with @joshtdean.bsky.social in Climate Change Economics: lnkd.in/gw8hr9Mu
There are compelling reasons to protect forests from destruction, giving out efficient cookstoves & other ways that generate carbon credits. But these often have very little to do with climate impacts. Ditching offsets doesn't mean giving up on these important projects.
November 22, 2024 at 11:45 AM
There are compelling reasons to protect forests from destruction, giving out efficient cookstoves & other ways that generate carbon credits. But these often have very little to do with climate impacts. Ditching offsets doesn't mean giving up on these important projects.
C-Quest Capital claimed it could improve people’s lives in Africa with cleaner cookstoves. But an investigation by The Post shows it promised more than it could deliver.
How one company’s plan to help the planet went off the rails
C-Quest Capital claimed it could improve people’s lives in Africa with cleaner cookstoves. But it promised more than it could deliver in selling carbon credits on a vast scale.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 1, 2024 at 8:23 PM
C-Quest Capital claimed it could improve people’s lives in Africa with cleaner cookstoves. But an investigation by The Post shows it promised more than it could deliver.
A cook stove program supposedly designed to let companies offset their emissions while also improving the lives of people in Mozambique and elsewhere was absolutely full of shit—the cookstoves were shoddy and fell apart, monitoring of their use was nonexistent.
Excellent investigation [gift link]
Excellent investigation [gift link]
How one company’s plan to help the planet went off the rails
C-Quest Capital claimed it could improve people’s lives in Africa with cleaner cookstoves. But it promised more than it could deliver in selling carbon credits on a vast scale.
wapo.st
September 4, 2024 at 1:44 PM
A cook stove program supposedly designed to let companies offset their emissions while also improving the lives of people in Mozambique and elsewhere was absolutely full of shit—the cookstoves were shoddy and fell apart, monitoring of their use was nonexistent.
Excellent investigation [gift link]
Excellent investigation [gift link]
Quibble: in BC, some people will use cottage or lakehouse, but that's a house hooked up to the electrical grid.
A cabin is off-grid and you're using an outhouse and propane or wood-fueled cookstoves and fires to cook.
A cabin is off-grid and you're using an outhouse and propane or wood-fueled cookstoves and fires to cook.
I've seen everyone sharing that US Dialect Quiz so I decided to make my own, much crappier, CANADIAN DIALECT QUIZ to guess where in Canada you're from
September 5, 2026 at 5:03 AM
Quibble: in BC, some people will use cottage or lakehouse, but that's a house hooked up to the electrical grid.
A cabin is off-grid and you're using an outhouse and propane or wood-fueled cookstoves and fires to cook.
A cabin is off-grid and you're using an outhouse and propane or wood-fueled cookstoves and fires to cook.
It is impervious to high-speed impacts but can be cut into smaller pieces and harvested by slower-moving methods. Over time, humans discovered that it has many supernatural properties. For example, when burned, it is suitable fuel for cookstoves, engines, and even warp speed travel.
September 5, 2025 at 11:37 AM
It is impervious to high-speed impacts but can be cut into smaller pieces and harvested by slower-moving methods. Over time, humans discovered that it has many supernatural properties. For example, when burned, it is suitable fuel for cookstoves, engines, and even warp speed travel.
"Nearly 20 yrs of “bridge fuel” enthusiasm have brought us not to lower global emissions, but to a world of record-high and rapidly-expanding fracked gas production far in excess of a 1.5º- or even 2º-compatible pathway."
It’s time to abandon the ‘bridge fuel’ fantasy
The problem is fossil gas, which is mostly composed of methane, is a gas, which means it leaks constantly: at wells, in pipelines and from gas cookstoves in people’s homes.
www.nationalobserver.com
January 8, 2026 at 4:39 PM
"Nearly 20 yrs of “bridge fuel” enthusiasm have brought us not to lower global emissions, but to a world of record-high and rapidly-expanding fracked gas production far in excess of a 1.5º- or even 2º-compatible pathway."
World: Start to cut 3.7 million annual deaths and 2% of global CO2 emissions with this simple and effective solution
USAID: No, thanks.
Story by @lauramillan.bsky.social
🎁 link www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
USAID: No, thanks.
Story by @lauramillan.bsky.social
🎁 link www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
USAID’s Demise Threatens a Vital Health and Climate Solution in Africa
A funding stoppage hurts efforts to phase out polluting home cookstoves and replace them with cleaner alternatives.
www.bloomberg.com
May 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
World: Start to cut 3.7 million annual deaths and 2% of global CO2 emissions with this simple and effective solution
USAID: No, thanks.
Story by @lauramillan.bsky.social
🎁 link www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
USAID: No, thanks.
Story by @lauramillan.bsky.social
🎁 link www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
quite a big study here showing that actual emissions reductions for a bunch of different offsets types are significantly lower than how they're marketed
This is exactly what you expect from a system that rewards maximum offset sales, not maximum climate action
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This is exactly what you expect from a system that rewards maximum offset sales, not maximum climate action
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 14, 2024 at 9:22 PM
quite a big study here showing that actual emissions reductions for a bunch of different offsets types are significantly lower than how they're marketed
This is exactly what you expect from a system that rewards maximum offset sales, not maximum climate action
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This is exactly what you expect from a system that rewards maximum offset sales, not maximum climate action
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Berkeley researchers have identified big issues in the accounting underpinning yet another type of carbon offset — projects that distribute clean cookstoves. They told me this carbon finance is desperately needed, but it must be based on sound science. heatmap.news/climate/offs...
Carbon Offsets From Clean Cookstoves Are Kind of Bogus, Too
A new study from the University of California, Berkeley, breaks down the issues, while also stirring up a controversy of its own.
heatmap.news
January 23, 2024 at 5:52 PM
Berkeley researchers have identified big issues in the accounting underpinning yet another type of carbon offset — projects that distribute clean cookstoves. They told me this carbon finance is desperately needed, but it must be based on sound science. heatmap.news/climate/offs...
It was very jarring 10/15 years ago to see efforts to replace solid fuel cookstoves in the poorest parts of Asia and Africa, only to return to London in time for the middle class fashion of installing wood stoves
DEFRA has just published a consultation on solid fuel burning. We're happy to see a long-term campaign ask addressed - warning labels on stoves. However, the proposals will only impact future emissions; they will do nothing to help all those affected by existing burning. #CleanAirNight #WoodBurning
New wood-burning stoves to carry health warnings in UK plan
Pollution from wood burners kills thousands but proposed emissions limit would cut toxic particles by 9%
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 2:24 PM
It was very jarring 10/15 years ago to see efforts to replace solid fuel cookstoves in the poorest parts of Asia and Africa, only to return to London in time for the middle class fashion of installing wood stoves
For years, there's been a concerted push to replace the polluting cookstoves used in many African homes with more efficient alternatives. The end of USAID funding is a blow to those efforts. "The impact will be far and wide," says one clean stove producer. By @lauramillan.bsky.social [gift link]
USAID’s Demise Threatens a Vital Health and Climate Solution in Africa
A funding stoppage hurts efforts to phase out polluting home cookstoves and replace them with cleaner alternatives.
www.bloomberg.com
May 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
For years, there's been a concerted push to replace the polluting cookstoves used in many African homes with more efficient alternatives. The end of USAID funding is a blow to those efforts. "The impact will be far and wide," says one clean stove producer. By @lauramillan.bsky.social [gift link]
Carbon markets for clean cookstoves are trying to solve the wrong problem.
The problem? 2.5+ billion relying on inefficient cookstoves to meet their basic needs —> health problems, local environmental issues and gender inequities that creates.
Solving that through CO2 markets is a kludge.
The problem? 2.5+ billion relying on inefficient cookstoves to meet their basic needs —> health problems, local environmental issues and gender inequities that creates.
Solving that through CO2 markets is a kludge.
This is a useful reminder that the carbon market both still exists and still continues to be rife with for-profit sale of faked climate action: sucking up time, money, effort and regulatory focus from the broader effort to phase out fossil fuels.
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
What a Clean Cookstove Company’s Bankruptcy Means for Carbon Markets
Prices on Corsia, a marketplace for airlines, have fallen in the months following Koko’s collapse.
www.bloomberg.com
April 9, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Carbon markets for clean cookstoves are trying to solve the wrong problem.
The problem? 2.5+ billion relying on inefficient cookstoves to meet their basic needs —> health problems, local environmental issues and gender inequities that creates.
Solving that through CO2 markets is a kludge.
The problem? 2.5+ billion relying on inefficient cookstoves to meet their basic needs —> health problems, local environmental issues and gender inequities that creates.
Solving that through CO2 markets is a kludge.
Cultural factors also matter. Biomass is often seen as “free” and convenient, and families are used to traditional cookstoves and the flavors they generate. They might be unaware of how damaging this pollution is to their health and skeptical of the damage that alternatives such as LPG could do.
October 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Cultural factors also matter. Biomass is often seen as “free” and convenient, and families are used to traditional cookstoves and the flavors they generate. They might be unaware of how damaging this pollution is to their health and skeptical of the damage that alternatives such as LPG could do.
CIFOR is testing fuel-efficient cookstoves in Cameroon to reduce wood use and forest loss. Past projects often failed long-term, but this effort focuses on whether communities actually adopt — and keep using — the stoves.
Cameroon cookstove project looks to slow forest loss
GAROUA, Cameroon — One morning during the July monsoon in Bang, a village of 3,000 in North Cameroon, people woke up to heavy rains. The Mayo Tefi, a small river which runs through the village,…
news.mongabay.com
February 2, 2026 at 3:40 PM
CIFOR is testing fuel-efficient cookstoves in Cameroon to reduce wood use and forest loss. Past projects often failed long-term, but this effort focuses on whether communities actually adopt — and keep using — the stoves.
Though it's worth looking at which offset projects sometimes worked, and which did not:
✅✅✅HFC abatement
✅✅Avoided deforestation
✅SF6 destruction
✅Cookstoves
❌Wind Power
❌Improved Forest Management
✅✅✅HFC abatement
✅✅Avoided deforestation
✅SF6 destruction
✅Cookstoves
❌Wind Power
❌Improved Forest Management
December 9, 2024 at 3:40 PM
Though it's worth looking at which offset projects sometimes worked, and which did not:
✅✅✅HFC abatement
✅✅Avoided deforestation
✅SF6 destruction
✅Cookstoves
❌Wind Power
❌Improved Forest Management
✅✅✅HFC abatement
✅✅Avoided deforestation
✅SF6 destruction
✅Cookstoves
❌Wind Power
❌Improved Forest Management