3. Provide suggestions on how government, entrepreneurs and NGOs can be involved

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3. Provide suggestions on how government, entrepreneurs and NGOs can be involved in a successful campaign to promote clean cookstoves in the developing world? (6 marks)
4. What would be the benefit to multinational corporations, such as Dow Corning, of participating in this effort? (3 marks) 3. Provide suggestions on how government, entrepreneurs and NGOs can be involved in a successful campaign to promote clean cookstoves in the developing world? (6 marks)
4. What would be the benefit to multinational corporations, such as Dow Corning, of participating in this effort? (3 marks)

Discussion Case: Clean Cooking In a small village in rural Kenya, a woman bent over an open fire pit in the center of her hut cooking the evening mcal. That morning, she had spent two hours collecting wood, animal dung, and scrap paper to use as fuel. Now, as she stirred the pot, the cook fire gave off a steady stream of sooty, acrid smoke, which filled the room despite a ventilason hole in the roof. The woman's young son played dangerously close to the open flame, while her daughter, coughing from the smoke, tried to read by the weak light of the fire. In 2012, a similar scene was repeated in more than 600 million households every day across the developing world, with devastating effects on human health, the environment and economic development Indoor air pollution from open cookstoves is a killer. The World Health Organization has estimated that soot, particles, and smoke from cooking is the fifth worst risk factor for health in developing countrics, causing two million premature deaths a year from lung and heart disease-more than malaria and tuberculosis combined. Open cookstoves also lead to disfiguring burns, asthma, cye damape, and pregnancy complications. The effects are greatest on women and young children, who spend the most time near the hearth Women and girls also suffer from head and back injuries, animal attacks, and sexual violence while searching for and carrying heavy loads of fuel, often far from home. Time spent collecting fuel is time not spent attending school, working at a paid job, or running small basiness. Primitive cooking methods also harm the envircement. Cutting trees to produce woo or charooal leads to deforestation, loss of biodiversity, and watershed degradation. Moreover the combustion of biomass in cooking produces more than a quarter of the world's black carbon, or soot. Scientists now believe that soot is second only to carbon dioxide in its overall contribution to global warming. Policymakers have been intrigued by the fact tha while carbon dioxide starys in the atmosphere for decades, black carbon washes out within days or weeks. Reducing soot in the atmosphere would thas have a much more immediale effect on global warming than cutting carbon emissions In 2010, the United Nations Foundation, in collaboration with several government (including the United States), launched the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, with the ambitious goal of -100 by 20-that 100 million households woerldwide adopt clean and efficient cookstoves and fucls by 2020, The alliance recognized that reaching this gou would require more than money: it would require technical innovation in fuels and st design, new mechanisms of financing, and on-the-ground campaigns to engage users from a wide range of cultures and cooking traditions. It would also require the suppont o businesses-large and small One compamy that saw an opportunity in the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves wa Dow Corning. In 2011, the Midland, Michigan-based maker of silicon-based material donated S5 million over five years to support the alliance. The firm had first become inte essed in the issue when its volunteer Citizen Service Corps participated in a clean coo stove project in Bangalore. India. Dow Corning believed that not only its money, but a its expertise in manufacturing and material science could be of value to the initiative. Ai the same time, motivated by greater attention to the issae, social entrepreneurs as the globe began generating innovative ideas about how to design, manufacture, and fina more efficient and cleaner cookstoves-potentially a "win-win" for the environment human health and well-being For example, in the west African country of Ghana, Suraj Wahab founded a small b ness, Toyola Energy Ltd., to produce a cookstove he invented called the gapa fire"). His company constructed the stove from locally sourced matcrials-scrap e

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Government, entrepreneurs and NGOs can be involved in a successful campaign to promote clean cookstoves in the developing world by

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By these initiative Dow corning gets:

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