Open-burning of municipal solid waste (MSW) is a major source of PM emissions in developing world cities, but few studies have characterized this phenomenon at the city and intra-city (neighborhood) scale relevant to human health impacts. This paper develops a consistent field method for measuring the spatial frequency of the incidence of MSW-burning and presents results in three neighborhoods of ...

Clean Cooking Alliance’s User Insights Lab (UIL) is unlocking the sector’s growth by helping clean cooking organizations tackle critical market challenges that must be addressed to achieve universal access and sustained use. The UIL combines the latest thinking in consumer insights, behavioral sciences, and design to support enterprises, non-profits, and governments that need to deliver more value...

Clean, efficient, affordable, and reliable technologies and fuels are fundamental to building a global market for clean cooking solutions. Consistent testing methods and reporting metrics, as defined by international standards, help consumers and suppliers alike navigate this market.With standardized protocols, established regional testing and knowledge centers can evaluate and communicate how sto...

Laboratory-based tests evaluate stove performance and quality under controlled, repeatable settings, allowing testers to quantify differences between stoves. Field-based tests demonstrate how stoves perform with local cooks, foods, practices, and fuels. The Clean Cooking Alliance (CCA) maintains this list of protocols for a range of stove and fuel types.Both laboratory- and field-based protocols h...

This Guidebook on Best Practice Monitoring, Verification and Enforcement (MV&E) for Appliance Standards & Labelling provides practical information on compliance frameworks based on the experiences of existing S&L programmes. It complements the previous guidebook and is designed as a manual for policy makers, programme administrators, and others involved in the design and implementation...

Guidance document by CLASP on best practices of cookstoves certification programmes. Provides information on: The benefits of Standards and labeling for cookstoves, requirements for Standards and labelling programs, programme development, data needs, efficiency standards, test procedures, compliance, product registration and enforcement....

This SNAP guidance document outlines a tried and tested process for developing national planning to improve air pollution and mitigation climate change through reduction of SLCPs within the context of ongoing activities for climate change mitigation, air pollution abatement and sustainable development. It is designed to provide advice and help to countries that wish to identify and implement actio...

The fire crises in the Amazon continues to increase the risk of large-scale forest dieback, threatening regional biodiversity and global climate. This issue gained international attention in 2019 when fires in the Brazilian Amazon led to a fire ban imposition. Despite the uncertainty of its impact, the fire ban was reenacted in subsequent years. Here we assess the effectiveness of each fire ban by...

Punjab has set a target to manage the entire 100 per cent (~20 million metric tonnes) of its paddy residue in 2024. The state aims to achieve this by scaling up the in-situ and ex-situ crop residue management (CRM) practices in the state. Last year, the state witnessed over 35,000 Kharif farm fires. While this stands lower compared to the cases reported during the pre-covid era, it continues to pl...

This account describes the context, history and outcomes of a series of studies into the ecology of slash-and-burn (S-B) agriculture in the world's humid tropics. These studies, which began in the mid-1980s, identified promising lines of research and continued to field trials, in Central America, of candidate agricultural systems as possible sustainable alternatives to the practice. The only syste...