| Project type | Stoves |
| Location | Honduras |
efficient stoves in HondurasCleaner air and healthier kitchens, protecting people and planet. |
VIDEO: Not Just a Stove, 2 mins
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Traditional open wood stoves provide a vital source of heat and energy for some of the poorest communities across the world. Yet these stoves can have a devastating impact on the health of the women and children who gather around them, and on the local forests which are harvested for fuel. |
"We don't use so much firewood, there's no smoke in the houses, we people are healthier..." |
Trees, Water and People (TWP) has developed a series of stoves based on the 'Rocket' principle, which have a much cleaner burn reducing the pollution. TWP and the Honduran Association for Development (ADHESA) are now bringing these clean stoves to people in the city through the innovative Micro-Enterprise Stove Project.
With ClimateCare's help, TWP can move from installing a few stoves on a subsidised basis to market commercialisation. By providing TWP with a fund, their customers can borrow money to purchase their stoves, which can be easily repaid as their bills are cut by 50%. This frees up money for other families to buy clean stoves, assuring the distribution of sustainable technologies over the long term.
Social and environmental benefits
Smoke from the stove is drastically reduced; Dona Justa, who was instrumental in the design of one of the new stoves, keeps one of her old blackened pots in her kitchen to show people, saying: "If that is what my pot is like, what must my lungs have been like?" And the benefits extend to the environment; laboratory and field tests have shown that on average the stoves (Justa stove and Eco-stove models) save about 1.5 tonnes of CO2 a year per stove by reducing unsustainable deforestation and improving combustion efficiency.
1 stove = 1.5 tonnes CO2 saved per year
Progress and Monitoring
Reductions will be monitored by an independent third party, which is likely to be Ambiental PV.