Improved Biomass Cook Stoves for Climate Change Mitigation? : Evidence of Preferences, Willingness to Pay, and Carbon Savings
This paper investigates household preferences for improved cook stoves using a choice experiment administered in rural Ethiopia, and the cost-effectiveness of an improved stove for reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. In Ethiopia, about 96 per...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/968101530190662253/Improved-cook-stoves-for-climate-change-mitigation-evidence-of-values-preferences-and-carbon-savings-from-a-choice-experiment-in-Ethiopia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29972 |
| Summary: | This paper investigates household
preferences for improved cook stoves using a choice
experiment administered in rural Ethiopia, and the
cost-effectiveness of an improved stove for reducing global
greenhouse gas emissions. In Ethiopia, about 96 percent of
household energy demand is fulfilled by biomass. Improved
stoves use less firewood and produce less smoke, and they
have been touted as a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
and health effects from indoor air pollution, as well as to
improve forest conservation. Although there are many studies
on the adoption of improved stoves, there is limited
information on the willingness to pay for particular
attributes of stoves, information that is vital for
designing effective stoves and improving stove adoption. The
paper finds that households have a positive willingness to
pay for the durability, fuelwood use reduction, smoke
reduction, and cooking time reduction of improved stoves. It
also shows that the stove used in this experiment can be
cost-effective for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, which
suggests that programs providing payments for reducing
greenhouse gas emissions could strengthen stove adoption if
they are well implemented. The main reason the stoves are
not being adapted is the lack of availability, which is a
key message to policy makers. |
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