[Stoves] 25 Million $ Stoves program from Shell & Envirofit

[Bruno M.]

The next news arrived today in the ARECOP newsletter, 
September-October2007 issue:
The deal was made on 25 Sept 2007.
They gonna produce 10 million clean-burning cookstoves in a 5 year period.

FYI:
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NEW GLOBAL ENTITY RAMPS UP BATTLE AGAINST 'SILENT KILLER IN THE KlTCHEN

Aims to achieve a five-year, 25 Million Investment to reduce Global 
Indoor air Pollution Deaths

Independent UK charity Shell Foundation and leading US environmental 
nonprofit Envirofit International today announced a ground-breaking 
partnership that has the potential to significantly reduce the number 
of global deaths caused by Indoor Air Pollution (1AP) the smoke 
generated by traditional fires and stoves used in developing world 
homes, More than three billion people, or almost half the world's 
population, cook in their homes using traditional fire and stoves, 
burning biomass fuels like wood, dung and crop waste. Day in and out 
families breathe in lethal fumes from these cooking fires. According 
to the World Health Organisation. IAP claims the lives of 1.5 million 
people a year worldwide, or one person ever)- 20 seconds. Women and 
children make up the vast majority of these deaths due to their 
increased exposure in the home.

Envirofit will be tasked with handling the scale-up and spin off of 
the Shell Foundation's Breathing Space programme, which was founded 
in 2002 to achieve significant global reductions in IAP. This new 
partnership is part of the Foundation's mission to see 10 million 
clean-burning stoves sold in five countries over the next five years. 
The Foundation is providing Envirofit with investment and 
organisational support to form an independent global entity. In turn. 
Envirofit international., working with their technology partner 
Colorado State University's Engines and Energy Conversion Laboratory, 
will design, develop, market and distribute clean cookstoves that are 
engineered to emit significantly less toxic emissions and use leas fuel.

For more information on Breathing Space Program:
  www.shellfoundation.org/index.php?menuID=3&smenuID=10&bmentID=5

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You'll find info on the same in a larger article on the Shell 
Foundation website here:
www.shellfoundation.org/index.php?newsID=440

And the same on the Envirofit website:
www.envirofit.org/media.html


Grts
Bruno M.
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