[Stoves] "For cook and climate: Certify cookstoves in their contexts of use"

[Nikhil Desai]

Crispin:

The DOI citation should be  doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2018.05.014.

Too much in here, from stove testing to CDM commissars' beancounting (with
no basis in law anywhere).

I wish you had some photographs and videos of these interviews and the
actual texts and translations; after all, foreign visitors' interviews with
56 women can only provide so much useful information.

I don't see any reason to put "climate" in the heading, nor do I see enough
evidence for your last sentence, ". In places like Darfur, energy policies
that promote sustainably harvested and produced charcoal at local markets
is likely to realize greater climate benefits than giving away free
cookstoves designed to burn wood."

I don't know what "places like Darfur" means. Did anybody ever do an
inventory and categorization of biomass cookstoves and fuels around the
world? Or just parroting Kirk Smith's billions and millions?

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On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 8:30 AM Crispin Pemberton-Pigott <
crispinpigott at outlook.com> wrote:

> Dear Friends
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> A paper that may be of interest to those designing stove programmes.
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> "For cook and climate: Certify cookstoves in their contexts of use"; Samer
> Abdelnour and Crispin Pemberton-Pigott; Energy Research & Social Science,
> Volume 44, October 2018, Pages 196-198; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.
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> Abstract
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> “Improved cookstoves are widely promoted as a health and climate improving
> technology, yet there remains a wide gap between their reputed benefits and
> the inconclusive outcomes of most interventions. An increasing number of
> scientists suggest that the popular lab protocols used to test, rate and
> model the benefits of improved cookstoves are at least partly to blame.
> Insights from a recent study of improved cookstove users in Darfur, Sudan,
> reveal the extent to which the logic and goals of lab-based testing
> protocols differ from actual cooking practices. We elaborate on the climate
> and energy policy implications of decontextualized lab tests and conclude
> with a call to design, test and select for dissemination only those
> improved cookstoves that are rated on the basis of their intended contexts
> of use.”
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> Regards
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> Crispin
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