Several months ago, I reported on the Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues, Melanne Verveer, a czarina post created by President Obama on April 6, 2009, to represent the interests of third world female population.
Verveer, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, suggested that we had to “build a global market for clean cook stoves” because they affect the climate through “greenhouse gases and short-lived particles such as black carbon. In her opinion, by integrating females into the supply chain of clean cook stoves, new economic development opportunities would be created for third world women, thus bringing gender to climate change.
The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, which was launched on September 21, 2010, in Washington, D.C., had 240 partners and many founders:
