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LPG stoves are a clean cooking option available in Kenya (Photo: Envirofit)
Meanwhile, only 30% of households have access The government is receiving technical
to clean cooking solutions, and nearly 23,000 assistance from Climate Compatible Growth
deaths annually are attributed to household air (CCG), UK Partnering for Accelerated Climate
pollution. Transitions, Modern Energy Cooking Services,
“Overreliance on open fires and traditional GIZ-Energising Development (Endev) and the
cookstoves and fuels is one of the most pressing French development agency (AFD).
health and environmental problem that calls for Recent studies show that the most advanced
urgent action,” he was quoted as saying. “It is the (efficient and low-emission) cookstoves and
reason why we have identified clean cooking as fuels can reduce black carbon emissions by 50%-
a national development priority by setting the 90%, Capital FM writes, while well-managed
target to achieve universal access to modern woodlots also produce sustainable wood fuel,
cooking energy services by 2028.” reducing CO2 emissions. ™

PETROCHEMICALS
Iranian petrochemical catalysts deemed

success by Russian plants, says NPC head

MIDDLE EAST RUSSIAN petrochemical plants are by now that the country was on course to becoming fully
using Iran-made catalysts and have placed new self-sufficient in producing catalysts used in the
orders to import more Iranian catalysts, accord- petrochemical industry by the start of the next
ing to the head of Iran’s National Petrochemical Persian calendar year (starts late March 2023).
Company (NPC), Morteza Shah-Mirzaei, as Of 40 types of catalyst groups in the petro-
cited by IRNA. chemical industry, Iran has “indigenised” the
Following bilateral negotiations, Russia knowledge for the domestic production of 28,
imported one tonne of catalysts for its petro- Daftari said.
chemical industry from the Islamic Republic Iran now boasted 70 petrochemical com-
earlier this year, Shah-Mirzaei was reported as plexes with an annual production capacity of
saying, adding that Russia turned to Iran for around 90mn tonnes and yearly revenues of
catalysts after the Chinese catalysts that it tested approximately $25bn, Shah-Mirzaei was also
proved unsatisfactory. On the other hand, the reported as stating, remarking: “If we are going
Iranian catalysts have been deemed a success by to have a dynamic economy, we must develop
Russian petrochemical producers, he said. the petrochemical industry.”
The Tehran Times quoted managing director NPC hopes Iranian petrochemical capacity
of Iran’s Petrochemical Research and Technol- will be declared as 120mn tonnes per year (tpy)
ogy Company (PRTC), Majid Daftari, as saying by the end of 2022. ™

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