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Carbon credits for cookstoves: trade-offs in climate and health benefits Freeman, Olivia Esther; Zerriffi, Hisham
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Cookstove projects have long been considered “win–win” development projects based on the multitude of benefits they can create. Carbon credits provide a new financing mechanism to fund such cookstove projects, but have been criticized as not always successfully meeting sustainable development goals. By drawing on previous literature this article critically looks at trade-offs between the maximization of climate and health benefits of cookstove projects in the context of carbon credits. It finds that carbon credits inherently account for climate benefits, but not for health. Therefore, clear objectives of cookstove interventions need to be defined prior to project implementation to insure the maximization of benefits in projects’ priority areas.
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Carbon credits for cookstoves: trade-offs in climate and health benefits
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The Forestry Chronicle
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2012-10
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Cookstove projects have long been considered “win–win” development projects based on the multitude of benefits they can create. Carbon credits provide a new financing mechanism to fund such cookstove projects, but have been criticized as not always successfully meeting sustainable development goals. By drawing on previous literature this article critically looks at trade-offs between the maximization of climate and health benefits of cookstove projects in the context of carbon credits. It finds that carbon credits inherently account for climate benefits, but not for health. Therefore, clear objectives of cookstove interventions need to be defined prior to project implementation to insure the maximization of benefits in projects’ priority areas.
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eng
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2013-10-18
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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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10.14288/1.0132672
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Freeman, Olivia E., Zerriffi, Hisham. Carbon credits for cookstoves: trade-offs in climate and health benefits. The Forestry Chronicle, 2012, 88(5): 600-608, 10.5558/tfc2012-112
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Graduate
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The Forestry Chronicle
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