Selling ethanol stoves in Mozambique to generate carbon credits

Inter Press Service: Along a dirt road in Mozambique's Sofala province, a long line of men on bicycles stretches into the distance, each carrying an impossibly big bag of charcoal strapped to his bike. The journey to town takes two days from where they or their families cut down trees and put logs in earth-covered pits to smoulder, to produce the charcoal. It is a common sight in a country where 80 percent of people rely on charcoal for cooking. Each year the charcoal sellers' journey gets longer as locals and...

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