[Stoves] Attempt to decipher political narrative of Clinton announcement

[Lloyd Helferty]

  Nick,

   The easiest place to find all of this information and answer your 
questions is by visiting their website, which looks like it has been 
very well prepared (probably in the works for weeks/months prior to the 
announcement -- they even have the site translated into Spanish and 
Chinese).
see: Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves:

www.cleancookstoves.org <http://www.cleancookstoves.org>

Click on the TABS at the top: *Overview, The Alliance, Resources *and 
*About Us*
There is extensive information there.  They are especially interested in 
learning about corrections, suggestions, and the usefulness of the web site.
You can reach them at Email: cookstoves at unfoundation.org
or Phone: (202) 419-3221 and they should be able to answer your questions.

Especially check out the *Goals* page:
"The global work will include establishing industry standards, spurring 
large-scale innovative financing mechanisms, championing the cause 
across the donor and development communities, developing indoor 
air-quality guidelines, addressing global trade and tariff barriers, 
field-testing cleaner stoves and fuels, laying out a groundbreaking 
research roadmap, and implementing a consensus agenda across key 
sectores (e.g., health, climate, technology, and fuels).

The targeted market work will include creating local stove testing and 
design centers, developing local financing tools to facilitate the 
marketing and scale of stoves and fuels, capacity development, reducing 
or eliminating local market barriers such as import tariffs, 
implementing major public awareness campaigns on the benefits of using 
improved stoves, and rigorous monitoring and evaluation."

Lloyd Helferty, Engineering Technologist

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On 9/23/2010 1:58 PM, Nick Bruns wrote:
> I am having a great difficulty trying to get a handle the political 
> narrative of this news.  Nearly all of the pieces I've seen have been 
> either basics on why stoves, or inflammatory blogs about spending and 
> what not.
>
> Where is this money coming from? What process did it take to bring 
> about this pledge? Who were the supporters, and who the major 
> opponents?  Any surprises on either side?  What types of obstacles had 
> to be overcome, and how exactly did that happen?
> How is the resulting outcome?
> Also, are there any good summaries, other then the brief mention in 
> Clinton's speech itself, on what exactly this scheme will look like?
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