One afternoon in the early 1990s, a group of pupils at the primary school I attended performed a drama about the Tsotso (twigs) stove (an improved biomass cookstove) to raise awareness about clean cooking. The message was simple: the open fires or simple metal stoves used for cooking in our villages were harmful and contributing …
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Is it too late to achieve UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO CLEAN COOKING by 2030?
As Bill Gates Notes reported here, it is unlikely that the world will achieve any of the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. This is cause for concern as we strive towards a better world post-2030. A few days after the Bill Gates Notes forecast, the World Bank and Partners released the 2023 Tracking SDG7: The …
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Energy poverty: an underperceived albeit a critical form of poverty!
Source: https://www.socialistsanddemocrats.eu/endenergypoverty In her most enlightening book, How Boards Work, Dambisa Moyo calls for corporate companies to, with the influence and guidance of their boards, constructively and methodically act to address societal and environmental concerns such as gender inequality, poverty and emissions of greenhouse gases. I found this both encouraging and refreshing. It made me …
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Blessing Gweshengwe PhD 