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How Project Affects Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions:

['Reduces GHGs (e.g., projects that reduce sources of GHGs, such as through efficiency or other changes in consumption)', 'Removes/stores GHGs (e.g., projects that capture, sequester, or otherwise enhance the "sinks" that accumulate and store GHGs)']

Impact on Underrepresented Groups:

Ethiopia is among the forty poorest countries in the world. Our products will be offered for affordable prices targeting especially people living in slums, women, and poor smallholder farmers. All of them belong to climate vulnerable communities. Our micro-gasifier cookstoves burn smokeless, replace heavy smoking cooking fires and thereby improve the health of the cooking women and children that are usually present in the kitchen. Affordable eco-sanitation rental toilets for families living in slums will improve the access to improved sanitation and reduce water pollution and water-born diseases. In Ethiopia, especially under-five year old children living in conditions with a lack of access to improved sanitation have a high risk of dying from diseases related to poor sanitation conditions. Our biochar-fertilizer has shown to replace mineral fertilizer already within the first year after application without yield losses. It furthermore increase soil fertility and water holding capacity of the soil and thereby climate resilience and income of smallholder farmers. We will establish a subsidiary company in Ethiopia with 95% of all employees being Ethiopians, most of them from a background from climate vulnerable communities.

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