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Nick,<br>
<br>
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).<br>
see: Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves:<br>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.375in; font-family: Calibri;
font-size: 11pt;"><big><a href="http://www.cleancookstoves.org">www.cleancookstoves.org</a></big></p>
Click on the TABS at the top: <b>Overview, The Alliance, Resources
</b>and <b>About Us</b><br>
There is extensive information there. They are especially
interested in learning about corrections, suggestions, and the
usefulness of the web site.<br>
You can reach them at Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:cookstoves@unfoundation.org">cookstoves@unfoundation.org</a><br>
or Phone: (202) 419-3221 and they should be able to answer your
questions.<br>
<br>
Especially check out the <b>Goals</b> page:<br>
"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).<span
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-family:
Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 18px;">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."</p>
</span></span> Lloyd Helferty, Engineering Technologist<br>
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On 9/23/2010 1:58 PM, Nick Bruns wrote:
<blockquote
cite="mid:AANLkTinBYsfaDvY8Kb=_PeMb11Huw1xhx1=355SGh0=b@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">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.
<div><br>
</div>
<div>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?</div>
<div>How is the resulting outcome?<br>
Also, are there any good summaries, other then the brief mention
in Clinton's speech itself, on what exactly this scheme will
look like? </div>
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