The generation of scientific and technical information on environmental issues and the training of human resources, in order to inform society, support decision making, encourage the protection of the environment, promote the sustainable use of natural resources, and support the Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources in reading its goals.
Solving environmental problems, protecting natural resources, and guaranteeing a healthy environment for sustainable development, are challenges that continually spur us on to redouble our research and data collection efforts.
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Over the last two years and as a response to achieve goals considered in the National Development Plan, various institutions of the federal government defined a program for improved stoves implementation. On its first stage, this program considers the implementation of 120,000 improved stoves, particularly in areas of high poverty. The program will expand this program of at least 500,000 stoves implemented by 2012 and is coupled with social programs to improve population quality of life and with those of sustainable forestry programs.
Our Experience And Interest In The Four PCIA Central Focus Areas
Have gathered mexican experiences between sectors of government, academia and NGOs, in order to understand how they have conducted small-scale interventions in various locations throughout the country. The main point concerns the implementation of programs require at least two years of follow-up in any program to prevent people reject improved stoves.
In Mexico, government social programs tend to provide free to the public, however it sometimes does not work, maybe when something makes people recognize the value of what they receive from government. It will be important how it is resolved in other countries
The National Institute of Ecology developed during 2008 a study to generate information that could guide and/or support the selection of improved stoves to be considered in a wide spread massive Program. The evaluation included controlled cooking test and water boiling test in order to know the fuel consuption efficiency.
In this study the four improved stoves were evaluated in the following aspects: fuel consumption, PM2.5 and CO indoor air pollution, and emissions of green house gases such as CO2 and air pollutants as soluble organic and inorganic particles.
Relevant Publications or Studies
Miriam Zuk, Leonora Rojas, Salvador Blanco, Paulina Serrano, Jephte Cruz, Felipe Angeles, Guadalupe Tzintzun, Cynthia Armendariz, Rufus D Edwards, Michael Johnson, Horacio Riojas-Rodriguez, Omar Masera
The impact of improved wood-burning stoves on fine particulate matter concentrations in rural Mexican homes
SUMMARY: To evaluate the impact of improved wood burning stoves on indoor air pollution, 53 homes in a rural town in Michoacnn, Mexico, were selected from a health intervention study.
Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology 17, 224 - 232 (24 May 2006), doi: 10.1038/sj.jes.7500499
Our Contribution to the Partnership
We want to share the recent Mexican experience in dealing with the selection in order to recommend some improved stoves to a massive intervention program from a balanced point of view still does not solve the problems in the elimination of indoor air pollution even with improved technologies and to give those technologies does not ensures the success of replacing the traditional three stone open fire. Any program should be including the monitoring of each step.
