World Environment Day
World Environment Day (WED) is the United Nations’ principal vehicle for encouraging worldwide awareness and action for the environment. It serves as the ‘people’s day’ for doing something positive for the environment, galvanizing individual actions into a collective power that generates an exponential positive impact on the planet.
WED theme this year is 'Seven Billion Dreams. One Planet. Consume with Care.' The well-being of humanity, the environment, and the functioning of the economy, ultimately depend upon the responsible management of the planet’s natural resources.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon says “Although individual decisions may seem small in the face of global threats and trends, when billions of people join forces in common purpose, we can make a tremendous difference.'
About half of the world's population uses unsustainable, biomass-based energy sources for indoor fuel. The daily use of biomass as a fuel contributes to extensive forest degradation and deforestation and harmful indoor air emissions that are prevalent in low-income countries, and imposes an unnecessary burden on the public health and economic development of the vulnerable populations of these countries. Rwanda now faces a growing wood fuel deficit. DelAgua is addressing these problems through one of the biggest programmes of its kind anywhere in the world.
The project uses Zoom Dura Cookstoves to provide a cleaner cooking stove solution by reducing fuel usage by up to 60% and smoke emissions by up to 70%. The cookstoves use less wood and burn more efficiently, thereby reducing climate harming greenhouse gases and helping to reduce diseases caused by air pollution.
Read more about the Rwanda Project here.
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