A new report from GVEP-I sets out to tackle the question of why the adoption of improved cook stoves has been so slow in developing countries.

GVEP International has produced a report compiling a series of articles written by key stakeholders active in the promotion, dissemination and marketing of cookstovesCooking is a basic energy need; in underdevloped parts of the world fulfilling this need often takes up a large chunk og income and/or is very time-consuming. Indoor air pollution is another concern with traditional cook stoves. globally.

The main purpose of the report is to delve deeper into issues of why and how cookstoves takes so much time and effort to be brought on to the market successfully. The report looks at the challenges associated with commercialising cookstove products and other reasons for market underdevelopment despite the enormous potential which improved cookstoves have as well as detailing several successes. There is a particular focus on populations in the South where the vast majority continue to depend on firewoodCollecting and/or buying firewood consumes large amounts of time and income in developing countries. Indoor pollution is a health concern with traditional fireplaces. and charcoal for cooking.

One message is clear: from product development to achieving large scale dissemination, the market for cookstoves is highly dependent on government or donorDonors help finance climate compatible development, explicit climate change measures to deal with adaptation and mitigation. For example US AID and the Asian Development Bank. (even carbon) funds and subsidies, sector specific non profit institutions, and in the current climateClimate is typically defined as the average weather (or more rigorously a statistical description of the average in terms of the mean and variability) over a period of time, usually 30 years. These quantities are most often surface variables such as temperature, precipitation, and wind. Climate ..., visionary social entrepreneurs.