[Stoves] Advocacy action: ask the GACC to stop promoting the WBT

[Xavier Brandao]

Dear all,

Sorry if I am spamming the Stove List, I will try to post less and gather
my answers together.

Thanks to those of you who supported the initiative! Each voice counts.

I wanted to say a few words about our stance, especially for non-technical
people. Some of you have said that the testing issues were very technical
and complex, and they felt a bit uncomfortable to take a stance on a
question they don't master completely. This is fully understandable.

I am myself not a technical person, I don't have an engineer or researcher
background.

In fact, our stance is really simple, it is the following:

   - "Several studies have been published these last years. They conclude
   that the WBT has a lot of fundamental flaws. That the results generated by
   WBT testing are not reliable. I am not able to understand everything that
   led the scientists to this conclusion, but what I can understand very well
   is the conclusion. These authors are sounding the alarm.
   - I have not seen, during all these years, anyone answer to these
   alarms. No scientist contested the outcomes of the study. The burden of
   proof lies now in the WBT "camp".
   - So, if there are no satisfactory answer to these critiques, as a
   concerned stove practitioner (or sympathiser) concerned by the future of
   this sector, I would like the precautionary principle to be followed. I am
   asking that the GACC stop promoting this protocol and instead support
   promotion and development of protocols which validity is not contested."

This is a simple, solid, reasonable position. This is common sense. This is
something understandable, and no one should go against that.

If you want to support but don't want your name to be public, no problem at
all, please let me know by email.

I remind you that our goal is to ask the GACC to:

   - publicly acknowledge that the WBT has major shortcomings
   - to remove the protocol from its website, so cookstove sector
   stakeholders do not use it
   - to actively promote development and use of other, valid, protocols

Please support our initiative by writing a simple email to me here:

xvr.brandao at gmail.com

Thank you very much in advance!

Xavier
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