[Stoves] FW: USA senate bill on stoves

[Crispin Pemberton-Pigott]

Thanks Leslie

Is the Bill holding anything up?‎ I am hoping you are at the head of the line for what is available.

The development of the sector has grown astronomically in the past four years.

Regards
Crispin

Colleagues - Senator Collins' bill introduced last spring mirrored the USG commitment at the time and while it authorizes funding for the agencies mentioned in the proposed legislation, the bill remains to be enacted.  That said, the funding is for the sector at large, not the Alliance directly per se, and some of these agency funds (EPA, DOE, etc.) are already in place and moving through standard USG procurement channels to various players in the clean cookstoves and fuels sectors.  The bill was not passed in the previous Congress so Collins may introduce it again in this session.

As Ronal mentioned, the Alliance recently held its inaugural Cookstoves Future Summit in New York in November, raising more than $400 million in commitments for the sector as a whole.  You can review the specific commitments at the following link<http://www.cookstovesfuturesummit.org/commitments>.

Happy New Year,

Leslie

Leslie Black Cordes
Senior Director, Strategic Partnerships
Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves | United Nations Foundation
Tel: (202) 862-6307 US Cell: (202) 421-6812


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From: "Ronal W. Larson" <rongretlarson at comcast.net<mailto:rongretlarson at comcast.net>>
Date: December 29, 2014, 7:12:02 PM EST
To: Huck Rorick <huckrorick at groundwork.org<mailto:huckrorick at groundwork.org>>
Cc: Discussion of biomass <stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org<mailto:stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org>>
Subject: Re: [Stoves] USA senate bill on stoves
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Huck etal

I answer with little expertise- so hope that someone from GACC can also answer.  My guess is that the last Congress' bill has already served much of its purpose.  GACC raised a large amount of money not very long ago, with the US government (State and USAId maybe being the largest agency donors) giving the most  (Canada next??). But the funding problem hasn't gone away and stove funding is still way less than $1 billion.

GACC is the only group I see on the horizon with an international reputation to take on this sort of funding.  I wish they were doing more along the lines of this list, but they will be attending the ETHOS meeting.  Some of us will be reporting back in about a month - and can maybe better answer your good question.  The important point is that the US Congress is reactive - and better stoves can be very much in the US interest.  Any bill keeps an issue alive - and bills only get passed if support is being received.

Ron

(I worked two years for the US Congress)


On Dec 29, 2014, at 1:21 PM, Huck Rorick <huckrorick at groundwork.org<mailto:huckrorick at groundwork.org>> wrote:

I skimmed the article and the PDF.  I'm not sure I am clear on what the bill does.  Would anyone want to comment, explain?  It seems like it is aiming funding specifically at Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves?  And doing so with funds several agencies already have?
If someone felt like elaborating on what it would do that would be useful.

From: Ronal W. Larson [mailto:rongretlarson at comcast.net]
Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2014 7:19 PM
To: Discussion of biomass
Subject: Re: [Stoves] USA senate bill on stoves

List:

            Our own Senators need to hear of our support for a new version of S-2100 for the 114th Congress.  See:
            https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/s2100/BILLS-113s2100is.pdf

            This is mostly about GACC - but included multiple agencies.

            Wouldn't hurt to have a House version as well.

            Thanks to Crispin.

Ron


On Dec 28, 2014, at 6:49 PM, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott <crispinpigott at outlook.com<mailto:crispinpigott at outlook.com>> wrote:

News....

http://www.collins.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2014/3/sen-collins-introduces-clean-cookstoves-bill-that-would-improve-environment-public-health


Regards
Crispin

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