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Italy's Enel engages with World Food Programme cook stove project
Dec 6, 2011, 16:42 GMT
Durban - Ialy's energy company Enel will help provide cooking stoves for rural areas and solar panels for food distribution points in collaboration with the World Food Programme (WFP).
Enel and the Rome-based WFP announced the 8-million-euro (10.7-billion-dollar) multi-year agreement on Tuesday in Durban, where climate change talks are taking place.
The cooperation is aimed at preparing to meet the food and emergency needs of a world population growth expected to reach at least 9 billion by century's end.
'The innovative approach will address the impact of climate change on hunger and undernutrition while also reducing WFP's carbon footprint,' officials said in a statement.
Enel, Italy's largest power company, will help with a high-efficiency cooking stove programme that spares women the violence they often encounter while collecting firewood and decreases deforestation and carbon emissions.
Enel's trade department will also focus on developing a business model that will generate carbon credits for people using the stoves. WFP has already handed out more than 140,000 stoves in Sudan, Uganda, Sri Lanka and Haiti to help 927,000 people.
Another Enel department, Green Power, will install the solar panels at UN humanitarian response locations that are managed by WFP. The targeted sites are Brindisi, Italy, Panama City, Dubai and Accra.
Enel Cuore, an independent, non-profit organization within the Enel Group, is also to support WFP's operations in Latin Amerian countries where it has offices.
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