PANGEA (Partners for Euro-African Green Energy) is a non-profit organization based in Brussels, Belgium that promotes sustainable African bioenergy production, investment and policies. It was registered in Belgium in May 2008 and its members can be found worldwide.
The goal of PANGEA is to build the African bioenergy industry by bringing together all the key players including producers, technology providers, investors, policy makers, researchers and industry experts. Since the industry is very new, there does not yet exist a forum for all of these players to interact, and so they are working independently and inefficiently. PANGEA is working to become a network for all of these players to interact, support each other, and build projects together.
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Our Focus
PANGEA is a membership organisation and one of our members, Project Gaia Inc., is also a member of PCIA. We support Project Gaia Inc by helping to promote their work with the CleanCook ethanol stoves in Ethiopia, Nigeria, Brazil and Haiti. PANGEA is currently organising two events in the European Parliament to highlight their project and activities in order to sensitise European parliamentarians and European Commission officials, as well as the general public.
Our Experience And Interest In The Four PCIA Central Focus Areas
To poor and middle class families alike, transitioning to a clean-burning stove means that women and their children can maintain better health by reducing the risk of burns, respiratory diseases (such as pneumonia), COPD (Chronic Obstructive Lung Disorder) or mortality from the many infirmities associated with indoor and ambient air pollution. It means that women will not spend hours every day gathering woodfuel, nor will they have to fear the dangers that accompany this task, such as rape and assault, wild animal attacks, falls, and exhaustion. Women who no longer need to gather woodfuel can earn extra money, grow more food, seek better education, take better care of themselves and spend more time with their children in homes unpolluted by harmful particulates and toxic gases. Local ethanol fuel production creates jobs for adults as employees in distilleries that produce the fuel and in the supply chain that brings the fuel to the customer. It also provides farmers with more local market opportunities, helping them to reduce price risk and increase their livelihoods.
PANGEA, in partnership with Project Gaia Inc, are working with the developers of the CleanCook ethanol stove to reduce the production and distribution costs to make the stove more accessible to communities in developing countries. PANGEA is very interested in increasing demand for these stoves to lower the costs and expand the market.
PANGEA believes strongly in the need for standardization in order to make the technologies more safe and accessible to communities where they can have the largest impacts on health, energy security and reducing deforestation.
PANGEA is interested in data relating to indoor air pollution exposure and health monitoring and relies on Project Gaia Inc. and its partners to gather and report on this information. PANGEA sees its involvement more on the dissemination side rather than direct monitoring or evaluation.
Relevant Publications or Studies
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Our Contribution to the Partnership
PANGEA is a network of international renewable energy producers, technology providers, investors, policy makers, researchers and industry experts. Within our network, we have access to +500 contacts working in renewable energy in Africa, Europe, Asia and Latin America who can contribute significant knowledge, technical skills, research and experience. Thanks to this network, PANGEA also has the ability to disseminate information from PCIA to key international industry contacts in order to have a maximum impact.
