Definition of COOKSTOVE

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a small cookstove that would be appropriate for an apartment

Recent Examples on the Web Projects often involve planting trees, preventing deforestation, installing solar panels or handing out cleaner-burning cookstoves. — Maxine Joselow, Scientific American, "U.N. Unveils New Rules for Aviation Carbon Offsets," 16 Mar. 2020 The idea is to reduce net global emissions by bolstering charities that promote initiatives like preserving and planing forests or supplying clean cookstoves to families. — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, "JetBlue Is the First U.S. Airline to Offset Emissions From All Domestic Flights," 6 Jan. 2020 In small kitchen huts, customers light a special stove and insert the briquette—an eco-friendly solution to the demand for wood to fuel cookstoves. — Nina Strochlic, National Geographic, "In Uganda, a unique urban experiment is under way," 17 June 2019 Four of the six people living here are in their tents now, next to their cookstoves, two by two, warming up and preparing their suppers. — Barry Lopez, Harper's magazine, "Polar Light," 10 Jan. 2019 The people who have upgraded their cookstoves and heating appliances to cleaner-burning fuels have done so in areas where the switch was relatively easy to make. — Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, "In China, replacing coal and biomass stoves has saved lives," 21 Nov. 2018 Although most of the household particulate pollution reduction seen in China was a result of a cookstove technology shift, the paper also studied the effects of substituting out coal and biomass in home heating. — Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, "In China, replacing coal and biomass stoves has saved lives," 21 Nov. 2018 Ninety percent of that decrease came from changes in cookstove and heating technology. — Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, "In China, replacing coal and biomass stoves has saved lives," 21 Nov. 2018 The alliance pledged to help engineer the distribution of 100 million cookstoves, small-scale appliances designed to cut fuel use and toxic emissions in impoverished households worldwide by 2020. — Sara Morrison, USA TODAY, "In developing world, an expensive push to reduce cooking fire deaths falls short," 13 July 2018

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