MALAWI TOBACCO BARN GLOBAL WARMING FEATURE
June 1st, 2008
BY BILL CORCORAN, in Lilongwe, Malawi
A NEW initiative to improve the health, wealth and environment of Africans is being driven by the Kyoto Protocol's international trades in carbon credits. This allows wealthy developed countries to scale back their emission reductions, if they can invest in slashing greenhouse gas pollution abroad. Now a project in Africa is attracting just such support. Its aim is to reduce the burning of wood in Malawi's cooking fires, and also its tobacco curing ovens, improving the efficiency of a key industry that is vital to the ...
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