Media
WASHINGTON, DC – 22 February 2012
Business solutions to enable energy access for all: CleanStar Mozambique featured in World Business Council for Sustainable Development’s publication.
CleanStar Mozambique has been featured as a case study in a new WBCSD publication, presented on the occasion of an event organized by WBCSD and Aspen Institute in Washington, DC on February 22nd.
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NEW YORK, NY – 30 January 2012
CleanStar Mozambique featured in UN High Level Panel on Global Sustainability’s Report Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing
“Thousands of smallholder farmers will be engaged to create a food and ethanol cooking fuel production facility, implement sustainable farming practices and lay the groundwork for economically and ecologically sustainable communities.” Page 41 of the Report.
12 January 2012
CleanStar Mozambique included in the 2011 Best of Inclusivebusiness.org
24 November 2011
“Clean Food, via Clean Fuel”: CleanStar Mozambique featured in Biofuel Digest
“CleanStar Mozambique’s approach simultaneously tackles five key issues in sub-Saharan Africa: energy access, rural development, food and nutrition security, deforestation, and respiratory disease and deaths arising from indoor charcoal combustion… [..] ..a venture to pay close attention to. If it gets scale, it could go far – very far, in addressing climate change, while promoting stronger rural economies in the developing world, reducing deforestation, and promoting health.”
LONDON, UK – 23 November 2011
Bank of America Merrill Lynch provides carbon finance to CleanStar and Novozymes Clean Cooking Fuel Venture in Africa
Bank of America Merrill Lynch announced a multi-million CER (Certified Emissions Reductions) financing agreement with CleanStar Mozambique. Under the agreement, Bank of America Merrill Lynch has an option to purchase and market CERs generated in Mozambique and other least developed countries in sub-Saharan Africa through displacement of charcoal with clean cooking fuel. The carbon finance and revenues received by CleanStar will be used to subsidize the upfront cost and ongoing warranty for the clean cook stoves, technology that would otherwise be too expensive for lowincome African consumers.
12 October 2011
“ICM Designs Cassava Ethanol Plant in Mozambique”: CleanStar Mozambique featured in Alternative Energy Newswire
“We’re thrilled to collaborate with Novozymes and CleanStar Ventures in this project,” said Dave Vander Griend, president and CEO of ICM. “Our employees put a tremendous amount of thought into the design in order to determine what equipment will work best for a location that has limited capabilities for overnight delivery. We are very proud to support CleanStar Mozambique in reducing exposure to breathing charcoal smoke through enhanced cooking practices, and improving the health and livelihood for millions of people living in the developing world.”
23 September 2011
CleanStar Mozambique featured in TreeHugger: “Trading Charcoal for Sustainably Farmed Biofuel in Africa”
Novozymes Vice President Thomas Nagy describes the partnership with CleanStar Ventures announced at this year’s Clinton Global Initiative.
September 2011
Novozymes and CleanStar Ventures featured in UN Global Compact Report: A Global Compact for Sustainable Energy: A Framework for Business Action
On the occasion of the Private Sector Forum 2011, the UN Global Compact launched its new report A Global Compact for Sustainable Energy: A Framework for Business Action. The Framework was developed in support of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s initiative Sustainable Energy For All aimed at mobilizing key constituencies from all sectors of society in a major global initiative intended to shape the fundamental policy and investment decisions needed to put countries on a more sustainable energy pathway over the next two decades.
The Framework aims to motivate and guide business engagement and action in support of the initiative. In keeping with the initiative’s 2030 targets, the Framework identifies how companies can have the most significant impact – through their core business operations as well as product and service development; through social investments and philanthropy; and through advocacy and public policy engagement.
Novozymes and CleanStar Ventures are featured in the Section “Sustainable Energy in Business Practices”, page 15.
NEW YORK, NY – 21 September 2011
Novozymes pioneers food-energy venture in Africa
Novozymes and environmental venture group CleanStar Ventures are to jointly establish an integrated food–energy business in Mozambique that will replace thousands of charcoal-burning cookstoves with cleaner ethanol stoves…
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