Tag: cookstove

A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, has come up with a finding that the cookstove distributors are gaining unjustly by overestimating the emission reductions caused by their cookstoves and earning more carbon credits than due. There are many companies that give away cookstoves to rural folk for free and earn tradeable carbon credits for the better cookstoves save. The recipients are happy because the gifted cookstoves consume less firewood or charcoal and smoke less. Typically, a cookstove costs ₹1,600, but each cookstove can earn...