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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=FR link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Dear Nikhil,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>« Taking her word, what Ms. Seitz seems to be suggesting is that "opposition to substantial issues" can be expressed by "concerned interests", not necessarily limited to National Standards Bodies that participate in the ISO process, and that the ISO process at least has an obligation to seek to take into account (read that bureaucratese anywhich way you wish) "the views of all parties concerned). »<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>OK, I didn’t know that, thanks for sharing the information, I’ll have a look at it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>« I am afraid there is no "We". Despite GACC and World Bank claims about "stove sector" or "improved and clean cooking sector", there is no official stamp on any testing protocol. »<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I am for cooperation rather than division. I think a lot can be worked out by discussion.</span><br><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><br>Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><br>Xavier <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>De :</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Nikhil Desai [mailto:pienergy2008@gmail.com] <br><b>Envoyé :</b> samedi 2 septembre 2017 04:20<br><b>À :</b> Discussion of biomass cooking stoves; Xavier Brandao<br><b>Cc :</b> Ronal W. Larson; Crispin Pemberton-Pigott; Neeraja Penumetcha; Sally Seitz<br><b>Objet :</b> Re: [Stoves] News: National Geographic on promotion of gas stoves over improved woodstoves - in Guatemala<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>I Xavier:<br><br>1. ISO is not the only body developing "standards". All national standards institutions develop and revise standards, and private organizations also devise standards to be voluntarily accepted. Why, just a few days ago, the Gold Standard Foundation calls itself a "<a href="https://www.goldstandard.org/our-story/who-we-are">standard and certification body</a>" has floated <a href="http://Gold%20Standard%20for%20the%20Global%20Goals">Gold Standard for Global Goals</a>, for "<span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#595959'>future-proof Gold Standard projects for changing market conditions, including the emerging rules of the Paris Agreement and the aviation sector’s new market mechanism CORSIA, as well as broader trends in corporate sustainability and climate and development funding."</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#595959'><br></span>CDM and Gold Standard use of WBT, or any protocol for any metric that it purports to but does not directly measure, are as important at this stage as anything that develops out of the ISO TC-285. I don't know how many countries with what market type and size would incorporate "international" standards in domestic law and have the capacity to enforce them. We know EPA will not, and that's that. Why EPA is indirectly - via GACC and ANSI - is leading the TC-285 exercise is not exactly a mystery, just not out in the open. (Ms. Penumetcha or Ms. Seitz, cc'd here, may want to share ANSI contract scope of work with US Government or its agencies and theirs with ISO.) <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>2. You ought to read Ms. Seitz' presentation at the IWA. She said: <o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-left:30.0pt;margin-right:0cm'><div><p class=MsoNormal>a. An international standard is characterized by ""<b>consensus</b>: General agreement, characterized by the <u>absence of sustained opposition to substantial issues by any important part of the concerned interests and by a process that involves seeking to take into account the views of all parties concerned and to reconcile any conflicting arguments.</u> (emphasis added) and<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-left:30.0pt;margin-right:0cm'><div><p class=MsoNormal>b. A Standard, inter alia, "provides governments with a technical base for health, safety and environmental legislation, and conformity assessment" and "shares technological advances and good management practice"<o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Taking her word, what Ms. Seitz seems to be suggesting is that "opposition to substantial issues" can be expressed by "concerned interests", not necessarily limited to National Standards Bodies that participate in the ISO process, and that the ISO process at least has an obligation to seek to take into account (read that bureaucratese anywhich way you wish) "the views of all parties concerned). <br><br>Therefore, I suggest that you prepare a document to be sent directly to Ms. Seitz and Ms. Penumetcha (as GACC is officially contracted with ISO and perhaps the US Government). I see no problem in requesting them to not only dump WBT for reasons that you have raised but officially acknowledge its limits. I think it is entirely permissible to write this in your personal capacity, and you could share it with this group. Those from this group, in their individual capacities, may endorse a petition. <br><br>Such an effort can also be taken to the D-Lab convenors at MIT for their limited and short-sighted version of stove science progress. <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Your view is<span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#595959'>"</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>We have to take the time. To take the time to do the right thing, to correct the past mistakes, to move forward, we have to take the time to stop wasting time."</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><br>Just as I said to Crispin that "There is no there there" in Kirk Smith, et al. GBD estimates or worse still, HAPIT, I am afraid there is no "We". Despite GACC and World Bank claims about "stove sector" or "improved and clean cooking sector", there is no official stamp on any testing protocol. <br><br>Yes, this applies to WBT in the US. I am not aware of any Federal Register entry that designates WBT - or those who claim to test according to WBT - as "certified" measure or entity respectively. <br><br>Wherefore, anybody who has been damaged by the use of WBT is entitled to bring a claim in a US Federal court for relief against false claims or other torts. <br><br>US claims to be a nation of laws. So US entities are bound by legal agreements. <br><br>Nikhil<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Nikhil Desai</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>(US +1) 202 568 5831<br><i>Skype: nikhildesai888</i></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>