Women Fairtrade coffee co-operative members from Ethiopia have been the first to earn carbon credits from clean cooking. The women, who traditionally spend two or three hours every morning collecting wood for cooking over an open fire, have to deal with the resulting health issues, such as burns, coughs and eye irritation. Smoke from the fires causes pollution locally, and the wood-gathering results in deforestation, damaging the soil and increasing the chance of harmful emissions. But now energy efficient cook stoves, distributed to 20,000 member households by the Oromia Farmers…
Read MoreFairtrade coffee co-op earns more than £190,000 with ground-breaking clean cooking carbon credit project
