Gasbes Energy Selected for the Biodiversity Finance Accelerator support programme
Gasbes Energy is a Zambian start-up that was founded in 2017. The company is focused on clean energy, particularly clean cooking. Gasbes energy is one of the 29 biodiversity-positive enterprises from Malawi and Zambia that have been selected to join the 9-month Biodiversity Finance Accelerator (BioFA) support programme to scale its business operations and mobilise investments. Gasbes Energy was founded in order to …
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IPCC climate report: Clean cooking tech is crucial for Climate action now
Twelve years. A report released this month by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says that the world may have only a few more years to stop climate change. The report, which has been getting a lot of attention, says that all countries need to take action quickly and in a way that has never been done before. This …
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Access to clean cooking can improve the population’s health by almost 4% by 2030
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Jonathan Lungu
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April 1, 2022
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Blog
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Biogas, News
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Zambia’s dependence on biomass fuels for heating and cooking poses a serious problem. The incomplete combustion of these solid fuels in inefficient cooking stoves and devices causes premature death and acute respiratory, cardiovascular, and circulatory diseases. (Smith and Pillarisetti 2017, Shupler et al 2018) It is estimated that between 1.6 and 3.8 million people die annually from household air pollution …
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