Do Improved Biomass Cookstoves Reduce Fuelwood Consumption and Carbon Emissions? : Evidence from Rural Ethiopia Using a Randomized Treatment Trial with Electronic Monitoring
This paper uses a randomized experimental design with real-time electronic stove temperature measurements and controlled cooking tests to estimate the fuelwood and carbon dioxide savings from an improved cookstove program in the process of being...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2015
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/06/24684329/improved-biomass-cookstoves-reduce-fuelwood-consumption-carbon-emissions-evidence-rural-ethiopia-using-randomized-treatment-trial-electronic-monitoring http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22193 |
| Summary: | This paper uses a randomized
experimental design with real-time electronic stove
temperature measurements and controlled cooking tests to
estimate the fuelwood and carbon dioxide savings from an
improved cookstove program in the process of being
implemented in rural Ethiopia. Knowing more about how
households interact with improved cookstoves is important,
because cooking uses a majority of the fuelwood in the
country and therefore is an important determinant of
greenhouse gas emissions and indoor air pollution. Creating
local networks among stove users generally appears to
increase fuelwood savings, and among monetary treatments the
most robust positive effects come from free distribution.
The paper estimates that on average one improved stove saves
approximately 634 kilograms of fuelwood per year or about
0.94 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per year, which is
about half of previous estimates. Using the May 2015
California auction price of $13.39/ton, the carbon
sequestration from each stove deployed is worth about
$12.59. Such carbon market offset revenues would be
sufficient to cover the cost of the stove within one year. |
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