<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><blockquote type="cite">Excellent reports, complete with descriptions, performance data and considered analysis. In my perspective, the potential for truly green charcoal using the renewable grass, bamboo, is compelling. The emerging level of articulation of the challenges for indoor environment, sustainable fuel and cookstoves is inspiring. </blockquote>Greg Egan</div><div>Bamboo Science Group</div><div><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On Dec 13, 2014, at 1:11 PM, Ronal W. Larson <<a href="mailto:rongretlarson@comcast.net">rongretlarson@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><div>Ms. Soezer: cc Ranyee Chiang (of GACC) and the stoves list.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1. I have just skimmed through the NAMA charcoal studies for both Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana. I found much useful information for both at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/librarypage/environment-energy/mdg-carbon.html">http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/librarypage/environment-energy/mdg-carbon.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I also skimmed through the similar earlier NAMA charcoal report for Uganda, found at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.undp.org/content/dam/undp/library/Environment and Energy/MDG Carbon Facility/CharcoalNAMAstudy_9Jan2013.pdf">http://www.undp.org/content/dam/undp/library/Environment%20and%20Energy/MDG%20Carbon%20Facility/CharcoalNAMAstudy_9Jan2013.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>You are doing a very valuable service bringing attention to rapid deforestation due to illegal char-making - and to how little data there is on this horrible practice. This obviously holds in many more places than the three countries you have so far analyzed.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>2. This note is to urge that you expand the ideas and material related to GACC, which is only in your most recent report for Cote d’Ivoire. It is my opinion that the countries you are targeting will find an optimum solution to move away from charcoal use (for cooking) altogether. Obviously you can get many more meals from a given tree if you avoid the in-the-bush production of charcoal - which wastes all those valuable pyrolysis gases. But equally important is that soils everywhere are in need of the benefits that char placed there (biochar) can bring. Biochar has both local and international economic value - as IPCC’s AR5 has shown we must take excess CO2 out of the atmosphere. Biochar seems to be the best means we have for doing this. The cooks you are trying to help (both rural and urban) can make money (<b style="text-decoration: underline;">not</b> spend more) as well as save money as they are cooking. Surprisingly, cooks can save time as well, since char-making stoves need minimal attention. Turning to LPG stoves can’t possibly help these countries’ economies, much less global warming.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>3. So the purpose of this note is to urge you to further expand the stove aspects of char that you have now introduced as you further work with GACC. Your emphasis on development goals is outstanding - and will be even further enhanced by biochar as countries such as the three you have featured so far can receive funding from developed countries for CDR (carbon dioxide removal). Your rural clientele can greatly expand their income as they add energy crops to their existing food crop base (for wood, not charcoal, leaving their farms. Your urban clientele will benefit from a cleaner, healthier environment, easier cooking, and lower (probably negative) costs.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>4. There are dozens of persons on the stoves list (being cc’d) ready to help with this much-needed transition away from charcoal for cooking. The forests you are commendably trying to protect are needed for higher uses of 1) energy, 2) soil improvement, and 3) climate improvement. Only biochar can provide all three, with three non-competing income streams that are so badly needed for the development that UNDP is so important in promoting.</div><div><br></div><div>Ron</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>On Dec 12, 2014, at 6:07 PM, Alexandra Soezer <<a href="mailto:alexandra.soezer@undp.org">alexandra.soezer@undp.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; 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