The Sustainable Development Goals, adopted in 2015 by 193 nations, mark a major step towards addressing poverty, inequality, and climate change over the next 15 years. As the world works towards implementing these goals and addressing climate change, it is particularly important that we invest in scalable solutions at the household level that address root challenges and deliver cross-cutting, economically inclusive impacts.
By developing a thriving global market for clean and efficient cookstoves and fuels, we can transform the way the world cooks, saving lives, improving livelihoods, empowering women, and protecting the environment simultaneously. With a continued focus and targeted implementation efforts, clean cooking can directly deliver gains across 10 of the SDGs and contribute to an enabling environment for achieving the entire Agenda 2030, including:
The use of ecochulla Elegant/neerdhur contributes in saving INR/year for each family which will be utilized for family needs such as Education, Healthcare.
Neerdhur and Elegant contributes to the reduction of indoor air pollution resulting in decrease of respiratory diseases, eye damages and children health.
Elegant cooks food faster than traditional stoves and Uses fuel called ‘Pellets’ which reduces firewood collection time enabling young girls to dedicate more time to education instead of cooking and collecting fuel.
The burden of cooking and fuel sourcing mostly falls upon women and young girls, using Improved stoves enables them to spend more time with family and earn livelihood for them.
More than 30,000 + households benefit from ecosense’s Improved biomass cookstoves.
Ecosense manufacturing facility has created employment opportunity for local people with Complete women assembly line.
One Neerdhur reduces 4 tons of CO2 emission per annum from the environment,
One Neerdhur reduces 40% of firewood consumed daily which results in 100 fully grown tress saved from deforestation annually preserving Biodiversity.