As a Christmas gift and donation in 2024 Lapposand GmbH has funded energy-efficient stoves, generating CO2 certificates.
This contribution not only reduces CO2 emissions but also helps alleviate the time-consuming and often dangerous task of collecting firewood for at least one woman and her children in Rwanda or Nigeria. Furthermore, these stoves improve air quality, reduce the risk of fires, and ease the pressure on deforestation.🎁
Cooking stoves - clean and efficient
Today, 2.3 billion people worldwide - nearly one third of the global population - still cook their meals over open fires or on basic stoves, breathing in harmful smoke released from burning coal, charcoal, firewood, agricultural wastes, and animal dung. These practices can still be found in 128 countries today - where households do not have the tools or means to reliably cook meals using clean burning fuels. Even the simplest, widely available cooking devices could improve this situation, including devices like camp stoves using liquefied petroleum gases (LPG) and electric hotplates.
A lack of clean cooking contributes to 3.7 million premature deaths annually, with women and children most at risk. Poor indoor air quality is a leading cause of premature death worldwide. In Africa alone, women and children account for 60% of early deaths related to smoke inhalation and indoor air pollution. This is primarily the result of basic cooking practices that lead to respiratory complications and cardiovascular diseases.
Women disproportionately endure the negative consequences of rudimentary cooking, while afforded limited ways to change to cleaner solutions. In addition to health risks, a lack of clean cooking prevents many women and girls from accessing education, earning a wage or starting a business that would deliver financial autonomy. In many parts of the world, they typically have little say over household spending, with other purchases prioritised over clean cooking devices. Under-representation of women within executive institutions means that clean cooking also remains low on the political agenda.
For more information about this important energy solution in the Global South, you can read the IEA report:
We purchased the carbon certificate for clean and energy efficient cook stoves from Atmosfair:
atmosfair
A German non-profit organization that actively contributes to CO₂ mitigation by promoting, developing and financing renewable energies in over 20 countries worldwide. We rely exclusively on voluntary climate payments from private individuals and businesses. Aiming to decarbonize the world economy, we designed our software tools and consulting services to assist businesses in executing their climate policies.